For the past 25 years I have built homes, airplanes, furniture and more in the Olympia, Washington area. For decades, the waste made from these projects just went to the dump - to be squirreled away in some landfill somewhere. As I began to oversee the building of my own home, it occurred to me that perhaps the wood “waste” from construction and windfall trees were not actually waste at all - they are raw material for the next project. And from there, MoraMade Woodworks was built.

MoraMade is a reference to the first campground my wife and I traveled to in the early 1990's when we started dating. Off the coast of the Pacific near Forks, you'll find Rialto Beach and Mora Campground - an oasis from the world of busyness. We camped there often - taking our little "Bessie" - the 1982 Honda Civic from Seattle to Forks and back again nearly every weekend.

When we built our home 30 years later, we inscribed in the foundation concrete, "Mora Mora" to reference our beginning and our present.

The woodshop at Mora consists of drying sheds, storing sheds, and a shop where fallen and gathered lumber is collected. Once ready for use, I produce small items such as board games, cutting boards, charcuterie boards, fly-fishing boxes, jewelry boxes, and fire starters with that wood waste from construction sites or from windfall lumber from my property.