Welcome to essays from the Hungry Woodworker

This is Hungry Woodworker, a newsletter about learning to woodwork. I’ve been learning how to build furniture for a few years now. Though I am still an amateur, I started a business in 2022 as a way to share this journey of becoming a woodworker and artisan.

Woodworking and writing are intertwined labor to me.

There are the obvious similarities—both require diligent focus and hours of practice, take years of effort to get good at—but that’s not entirely all that binds them. Nor is it that one is a respite from the other.

It’s that each is a force pushing me to connect more deeply with others. At a core level, I build furniture to make physical my belief that every person deserves an heirloom. Through writing, I am able to define and clarify those beliefs, to use stories as a way of ensuring this is the right path for me.

Thank you for being here and for reading.