The short version.
My grandfather kept a small woodshop for as long as I knew him — I grew up watching him work. I picked up the tools myself in 2017, made my first cribbage board in 2020 as a Christmas gift for my brother, and the side gig grew from there.
Day job: mechanical engineer. I design things for a living, mostly in CAD, mostly in front of a screen. The shop started because I'd grown up around one — grandpa's, full of clamps and shavings — and I wanted something I could actually hold at the end of the week.
A few hundred boards later, this is what it's become: cribbage boards, charcuterie blanks, the occasional realtor closing-gift run. Still evenings and weekends, after bedtime. I keep my day job; you get a piece made slowly, by someone who cares enough to do it that way.
Outside the shop and the day job: dad, partner to Megan, Langley local. The shop is in the garage. The garage is in the house. That's about it.