In the furniture realm, I started out with a garage, antique hand tools, and a laser-focused obsession. I learned on my own to make tight dovetails, decent saw cuts, and pretty good dadoes. I have heard this is a crazy feat and I take that as a compliment.

I don't have any preciousness about hand tools beyond knowing when it is better than a machine (mostly fine-tuning and finishing a surface.) I do all surface finishing and dovetails by hand though. No machine or jig or anything comes close to the quality and aesthetic of hand cut dovetails.

My style is called Southwest Modern. I’m inspired by the geometry and angles of the handmade furniture of the southwestern United States, ancient patterns and motifs of all human origins, but also the refined forms and balance of mid-century modern design. So I just blended them and came up with something unique so far, and I will continue to develop it with each piece I make. If you were conscious in the 90s you know southwestern furniture as the heavy, chunky, unfinished wood covered in Taco Bell-generic pastel patterns furnishing the single dad apartments and family dens of the time. This is not that (obviously, if you looked at the pics above.)