Wood chosen by hand, not by spec
We visit each timber yard ourselves, selecting walnut by grain weight, not SKU number. A board meant to outlast its owner deserves a tree that nearly did.
Six weeks of curing, not six days
Every slab rests through two lunar cycles in our mountain workshop before a single point is inlaid. The slow exchange of moisture is what keeps a board flat for eighty years.
Points cut at thirty-three degrees
Marquetry is not decoration. The angle that holds the eye is the same angle that keeps the veneer true under decades of play.
Brass that darkens with the hands that touch it
Our corner fittings are never lacquered. They earn their patina across decades of coffeehouse afternoons, just as the board earns its stories.