Where to even begin…I’ll say this, if you had told me 10 years ago that one-day I would be making and selling wood products, I don’t think I would have believed you.

It all started with two simple projects:

1) A wine rack for my Mom, and

2) A sign carved with a router for my Grandpa.
I was hooked after those two projects.
They taught me so much and eventually turned into two of the three main products that I would later begin to sell. Although I have expanded the inventory of what I make, it all comes back to these two projects.

Skinner Custom Works was launched in 2016, when I began selling the products mentioned above as well as Cutting Boards and Serving Trays. After getting my Etsy shop off the ground, I quickly began to get orders and loved the idea that my products were quality enough that someone that I do not personally know to want to buy sight unseen.

Come 2018, well, my wife and I found out that we were pregnant! This started a period where I put my Etsy shop on vacation mode, which continued through the pregnancy, and through my daughter’s first year and a half . This then led into a job offer, where we decided to move from Canby, OR down to Carpinteria, CA (my hometown).

For the first two years that we were back in Carpinteria, I did not have the space nor time to do any woodworking. Now, I have made the space and am happily resuming my woodworking business!

I have the support and help from my amazing wife, Genaveve, and my two kiddos! Other than woodworking, I am currently a high school Athletic Director, and coach high school football.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my website, and for getting to the end of my About section! Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!