Woodworking started as a hobby for me during high school and once I discovered my talent, I turned it into a career making custom furniture. All of my work is inspired by the natural variation and beauty of the wood that is grown in the trees that surround us everyday. I often incorporate live edge slabs, resin, and metal into my designs. In suburban NJ there is a tree service in nearly every town and most of the logs are brought to the dump, chipped, or burned for firewood. Seeing such valuable material wasted pains me knowing that I can transform it into something both beautiful and functional. Using a portable sawmill, I source a lot of my material locally from these tree services and sometimes even from storm damage in people's yards.