Making room for
something I love.

The name is pretty literal.

Wood & Working is about making time to make furniture while working full time and raising a family. I don’t have an unlimited budget or a dedicated shop. I build in our garage, which still needs to fit my wife’s car.

I enjoy making things we can use in our home, but I also want to see where this can go. The longer-term goal is to turn woodworking and creating videos into something I can do full time. Right now, I’m learning what it takes to get there, one project at a time.

I’m sharing the learning curve.

There are plenty of woodworkers who can teach this craft better than I can. What I want to share is the experience of being in the middle of it: choosing a design, trying something unfamiliar, running into a problem, and figuring out how to move forward.

Sometimes that’s a mistake in a build. Sometimes it’s getting a tool to work the way it should. And sometimes it’s finding a way to make progress when the time I had planned for the shop disappears.

I want the videos to show those decisions and fixes alongside the finished work. If something I’ve struggled through makes your next project a little easier, that’s a good reason to share it.

Starting with the shop.

The current big project is turning my hobby woodworking garage into a more functional woodshop. I’m building cabinets, improving tool storage, and making a space that works for the furniture I want to build next.

If you’re balancing work, family, and something you’d like to spend more time doing, I hope you’ll follow along. I’m figuring it out too.