ABOUT
5000 GRIT started less like a business and more like me wondering what I could make out of whatever piece of wood happened to be in front of me. I’m largely self-taught, which is a polite way of saying I’ve learned by trying things, screwing them up, figuring out why I screwed them up, and trying again. Somewhere along the way, I discovered that I especially liked working with material that already had a life before it reached my garage.
I also discovered that I really, really like sanding.
What began as making things for myself and the people around me slowly turned into something bigger. I kept experimenting, kept learning, accumulated an unreasonable number of tools, and eventually looked around and realized I wasn’t just messing around in the garage anymore. I had a body of work, a style of my own, and an idea worth putting a name on. I don’t have much interest in making the same thing fifty times.
I’d rather start with an interesting piece of material, see what it wants to become, and make something I haven’t made before. Sometimes that means following a plan. Sometimes it means changing the plan halfway through. And sometimes it means discovering an entirely new and exciting way to screw something up.
That’s part of making things by hand.
Everything here came through my hands, one piece at a time. If you buy something from 5000 GRIT, you’re getting the actual piece you saw—not another one pulled from a box that looks more or less like it. Thanks for looking at the things I make. And if you happen to think one of them belongs with you, even better.