Woodworking and Finishing

---

We love to create things from nature, whether it’s living or dead.  One tells stories of the past and the present and what the future looka like, and the other tells stories of how they lived.  Whether it is trying to keep nature alive or preserve it, we can find some of our lives mixed in with those stories.  

We source our wood locally and generally we sift through rough milled wood and fine milled wood.  We then select interesting pieces that tell interesting stories.  It is wood Yamadori.  Each piece of wood has been salvaged in Michigan due to disease, weather, or our growing society.

American Jitas are a form of the Japanese Jita(a board for bonsai or shitakusa).  The Japanese take pretty burls  of wood and finish them in a fashion thats aesthetically pleasing to the eye.  An American Jita is taking a hunk of Native American hardwood that’s been milled in an American fashion and turning it something that’s aesthetically pleasing in a Bonsai display.  We make both, Jitas in a more of a Japanese style and Jitas in an American fashion.