craftsmanship
Preparation
Wood is treated in a very special way from the moment it enters my studio. Instead of feeding boards into machines, I take plane to wood and use sight, sound, and feel to turn rough lumber into flat, square boards ready to join.
This can be grueling work—to shave away layer after layer of hard, dense wood, to risk going too far and taking too long. But this is also the dream of the cabinetmaker—to stand at a bench, ankle–deep in shavings, having witnessed the transformation of raw nature into an instrument of man.