We work with wood and lumber that is sustainably harvested, reclaimed, or hand-collected. We prefer working with sustainable, North American hardwoods such as maple, spalted maple, birch, walnut or cherry and try to select that wood directly from the small, owner-operated mills we buy from. Walnut and maple are our favorite woods to work with, although we often finds usual woods, such as spalted hackberry or mulberry at the mills. Because we produce one piece at ta time, we can choose individual pieces of lumber designed for a specific piece. Our willows are hand-collected from the Snowy Range Mountains.
We prefer to use hand tools - Japanese as well as traditional European ones - to bring out the luster of lumber. All of our products use environmentally friendly finishes.