Hey! I’m David

Since I was little, I have always wanted to understand how things work and be able to do things myself. If I saw something interesting, I had to know everything about it. Like many, this started early with LEGOs (yes, I think LEGOs is the correct plural term. Fight me.), but this quickly moved to computers and digital media. In fact, while I later graduated with a business degree, I initially went to collage for video editing and computer science. I also developed into a huge nerd mainly for Marvel and Star Wars, but also diversified into Harry Potter, Doctor Who, and video games. Fortunately, my future wife did not hold that against me when we met in college.

Upon graduation, I went full-time into corporate finance. I was extremely career focused in the beginning and spent many late nights and weekends attempting to fast-track my career. Around the time that I was getting burned out at work, we moved into our first house. We could not afford to hire someone to paint or make minor fixes, so I got on YouTube and started learning. This was the re-kindling of what was started with LEGOs, just on a much bigger scale and with some tools.

Over the years, I gradually acquired more tools and made more projects. I also was watching more and more maker YouTube. Although I had not edited in several years, I wanted to try making content around what I made like I saw others doing.

Today, I still work in corporate finance full-time, spend time with my wife and daughter, and make content about projects built in my garage shop. Most projects are useful, solve a problem, help me learn a new skill or technique, are themed after something I’m nerdy about, or ideally a combination of those. While I primarily work with wood, one of my goals is to be able to make just about anything. I also want to incorporate interesting and unique features in must, if not all, projects.

Most of all, I want to inspire others not to settle with what they can find in stores, but to build things themselves. Once you discover that you can create custom solutions for common problems, you won’t be able to settle for what can be purchased in stores (I know we aren’t). I’m still learning and want to pass on what I’ve learned to you so you can become a better builder and maker than I am.