About Me
I work with customers in Corvallis, the Willamette Valley & Western Oregon.
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I've been working with wood since childhood, and am largely self-taught. I grew up with solid maple dressers—dovetail-jointed drawers and 'smooth as butter' maple drawer slides. These set the standard for me ever since.
My first paying cabinet jobs were in my mid-teens, when I would work in my family basement after school until late at night, striving for perfectly planed edges with a $10 Sears block plane. At 17, I began working craft shows around the Chicago area. I was subsequently recruited by a cabinet shop, where I spent 2 years heading up a production line of cabinets and doing occasional custom pieces. At age 20, I moved to Oregon and became a baker. During the following decade, I grappled with issues of global deforestation and our disposable society, while keeping my hand in occasional wood projects. |
Mark Meyer, Artisan Woodworker
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In November of 1993, after realizing the extent to which woodworking feeds my soul, I launched MARK MEYER WOODWORKING. I did so with the commitment to strive for the highest quality I could attain, and the determination that I would not make 'throw-aways'. I want the pieces I build to outlast my customers.
Most of all, I've grown to enjoy the process of working with people to transform their ideas into pieces which fit their needs and please their spirits.
Most of all, I've grown to enjoy the process of working with people to transform their ideas into pieces which fit their needs and please their spirits.