Hello and welcome! Thanks so much for stopping by. I’d love to introduce myself and hopefully give you a glimpse into what I have found to be a craft and a calling in my life.

My name is Lucas, I live in beautiful Portland, OR with my wife of 14 years and a wild crew of 3 kids who keep us on our toes. We have a lot of fun up here, but amidst the hustle that is normal life - the wood shop has really been a creative and meditative space for me that I’ve come to deeply enjoy. This craft is special to me. It serves as a reminder that we are never done learning now and from our past, it gives me an opportunity to think and be creative, and it helps me feel like I’m doing some good in this world.

I’ve always had a fascination with handmade items of all types of mediums. Seeing the result of what somebody believed there was potential for is pretty amazing. It’s like a living record of the maker and the material and what was created; it’s stamped forever. It can be passed down, it can be made into something new, everybody can appreciate something different about the finished product, but the one thing that stays is: it exists because someone believed it could be something.

I think of it this way, when I make a cutting board, I’m not just making some meaningless kitchen tool where food is cut onto it. I’m making something that lives inside the walls of a home, where somebody made a meal for a loved one, where the knife marks from dinners made and memories recorded are etched into the wood forever, somewhere love and life and memories were made. Good, bad or indifferent, the wood has recorded moments in time. To think it could have gone to waste is tragic. Instead, I can make something that becomes a living memory.

Inspiration abounds here in the great Pacific Northwest and I’m drawn to create goods that reflect the natural beauty that exists all around me. In the wood shop, I like to highlight the beautiful simplicity of the wood. If you imagine the landscape of which these materials came from, they weren’t curated in a way to make you love them. We love them because they are simply beautiful to look at. A hillside dotted with trees is naturally beautiful, a coastline with fog weaving in and out of the forest is naturally beautiful. If I can find a way to showcase the story of the material, I’m here to help make that happen.

In addition to that, we’re pretty keen on keeping Mother Earth intact here in the upper left and it is very important to me to respect the space I’m in and materials I use. All of my work is made out of 100% salvaged and reclaimed hardwoods that were destined for the landfill, were broken and deemed unusable or about to be sold for firewood. I take a pile of wood and my goal is to give every inch of it a new life. Some of these trees get to live out their days making delicious food as a spatula, others live out their life making great music as guitar picks, some create memories for kids as beloved toys and trinkets, others get brought into family’s traditions of holiday gatherings and nightly dinners. Whatever it is I’m able to make, know that it was made out of love, respect and with the goal of creating something truly beautiful that you can enjoy for a lifetime.

Thanks for being a part of it all.