Meet The Maker

From Code to Workshop — Why I Make Things With My Hands

I've spent most of my career in technology. I love what technology can do — solving real human problems, making life easier, connecting people. But after years of it, I noticed something was missing.

Nothing I built was tangible. No product I shipped could be held, felt, or used in the physical world. You couldn't run your hand across it. It had no weight, no grain, no smell of soul.

So I started woodworking.

The first project was a bookshelf.

Nothing fancy — just something my house needed and my hands wanted to build. But that first project unlocked something. I started collecting tools, then confidence, then more ambitious ideas. I moved from furniture to smaller, more tactile things. Wooden spoons. Kitchen tools. Objects you actually touch every day.

Then I wanted to solve a problem I'd been facing for years: I couldn't find a cooking spatula I actually liked. Everything was plastic, flimsy, or awkward in the hand. As someone who thinks a lot about how people interact with the things they use, that bothered me.

So I made one.

Then I made a better one. Then another. I studied how pots curve, how wrists move, what thickness feels right for stirring versus scraping. I tested them in our kitchen for years — and they became the first thing my wife and I reach for, every single time.

That spatula is now the foundation of The Good Knot.

Why "The Good Knot"?

A knot in wood is usually treated as a flaw — but in the right piece, it's the most beautiful part. That's what I build around.

I'm a curious person by nature. 

I'm always asking why something works the way it does, and whether it could work better. That same instinct that drives good technology — understanding the human being on the other end of a product — is what drives everything I make in my Burlington workshop.

The difference is that now I get to use my hands. I get to smell the wood, see the grain, feel when something is right. It feeds a different part of the soul entirely.

Every piece that leaves this workshop has been thought through the same way: what problem does it solve, how does it feel to use, and is it built well enough to outlast the person who buys it?

That's the standard. That's The Good Knot.

Sascha, Burlington, Ontario, Canada