Oh God, Am I doing a blog?
All the scrap wood that is saved.
like all websites, I know I’m supposed to update this thing occasionally. Not let this space get too dusty, so, I’m going to attempt to use this little corner to post stuff that may not be my solo stuff, or things I like, or I don’t know, whatever I want?
Origin stories
It all begins with an idea.
I’ve know my buddy Adam since long before I moved westward. We started out our friendship living in two sides of a what I guess you could call duplex out deep in the woods of western Massachusetts. It was a rambling farmhouse Adam and his two boys on one side, myself and my 3 daughters on the other. Separated by what amounted to a closet door, it quickly because basically one big crazy house. This place was a dilapidated fairytale with hay lofts in the living room that turned into kids bedrooms, a bathroom that was a greenhouse (and an icebox in the winter).
I had just begun my journey into timber framing with Brad Morse of Uncarved Block about a year or so earlier, and it turned out Adam was also a builder! So we developed a friendship based on our love of the creative process surrounding building, architecture, furniture and the art of creating.
Not to long into my moving in to the house, I got knocked off a ladder onto an icy February concrete slab and broke my foot. Laid up at home unable to get around easily (my bedroom was up a set of winding stairs) Adam would come hangout with me pretty regularly. I’d complained about how I was going to be in big trouble being unable to work, and Adam offered me to come into his shop and help him build some steel parsons benches he was working on. I could set myself in a rolling office chair and grind out the welds smooth.
Since then, whenever we can we work together. I don’t know if you’ve ever worked with a person where you don’t have to communicate what needs to happen you both just anticipate and act. Like some sort of being with 4 hands. Well, that’s us.
I got to go up to Sebastopol, where Adam lives, and help him with some finishing and install of these gorgeous custom cabinets he made for a client.
Adam’s probably the most creative and talented cabinetmaker / designer I’ve ever known, and I’m always humbled by the fact that I’m his go to when he needs help/input or someone to just talk it out with.
