Wood that already lived once
Heart pine joists, dock pilings, fence posts and mill offcuts from within 200 miles. Reclaiming timber uses a fraction of the energy of new stock and gives every board a history you can read in the grain.
Our story
In 2001 a demolition crew let us take the heart-pine joists out of a house they were pulling down. We took every beam.
Those first boards became a dining table for a neighbour, then three more, and by 2004 the house was gone and the workshop was not. What we learned in that timber still guides everything: old wood is denser, calmer and more beautiful than anything you can buy new, and it deserves joinery that will not insult it.
We are still deliberately small. Six makers, one shift, no production line. A commission takes six to ten weeks because that is how long it takes to do it properly — and because we would rather turn work away than hurry a joint.
What we believe
Heart pine joists, dock pilings, fence posts and mill offcuts from within 200 miles. Reclaiming timber uses a fraction of the energy of new stock and gives every board a history you can read in the grain.
Mortise-and-tenon, dovetail and wedged through-tenon. A well-cut joint outlives the screws that hold most furniture together — and it can be tightened a century from now.
Plant-based hardwax oil and beeswax. No lacquers, no formaldehyde, nothing that needs a respirator in your dining room.
Every piece carries the maker's signature and the date. Bring it back in twenty years and we will repair it — that is the whole point of building this way.
How we build
Every commission follows the same unhurried path. Nothing is outsourced, and nothing is finished in a spray booth.
The people
You will deal with the person who makes your furniture — not a call centre.
Trained as a joiner in the English tradition, Elias salvaged his first heart-pine joists in 2001 and never looked back.
Keeps six benches, forty commissions and one very old bandsaw running on time.
Hand-rubs every surface and runs our ten-year oiling service for past clients.
Turns a photograph and a room measurement into working drawings the same week.
Materials
We buy nothing from a catalogue. Every material below is either salvaged, storm-felled or made within a day's drive.
Old-growth heart pine out of demolished California buildings. Dense, honey-toned, near-indestructible.
Milled from trees brought down by Gulf storms. Chocolate depth, and cypress that shrugs off humidity.
Shock-resistant and pale — our choice for seating and children's pieces.
Hand-forged pulls and cast brass hinges from a California foundry, chosen to survive salt air.
“They build furniture the way it was built before anyone thought to make it cheaper. Our table will outlive us, and I find that enormously comforting.”
Margaret Ellison — Pomona, California

Workshop visits are welcome Tuesday to Saturday. You will leave with a handful of samples and a much clearer idea of what your room needs.