My grandfather collected walnut—tons of walnut—of which he used to fill up multiple barns. Through the amazing wood that has been passed down through our family, I've been working with wood since a very young age. At one point, I even worked full-time restoring fortepianos for a living—shaping small, intricate piano parts from pear wood and repairing beautiful French-polished veneer by hand.

Now, I built furniture and jewelry. With the scraps from beds and other reclaimed wood, I make earrings and other jewelry. I use anything that I have on hand: maple from bowling alley lanes, cedar siding from houses, black locust from piles of firewood, as well as ash, ipe, and sapele scraps from beds I build. I like to bring the beauty out of all of this wood—using the patterned grains in interesting ways—and into our everyday lives.

I hand make these things as I go, but am happy to make things to order, too. I hope you enjoy the things in my shop.