About Against the Grain Custom Woodworking

Thank you for your interest in Against the Grain Custom Woodworking in Richmond, Virginia. We look forward to working with those of you who are checking us out for the first time, and we’re always glad to have our friends and repeat clients check out our latest creations.

We create unique furniture and cabinets using domestic, exotic, and figured wood and wood veneers to bring your vision to reality. We highlight the figuring and grain of the wood, and we bring this creativity and attention to detail to all of our work. We build furniture and cabinets with the lasting quality you should expect from a custom woodworking shop.

Whether you’re looking for a show piece for the living room or something to fit into an odd-shaped space, we enjoy the details of fine furniture. We start by listening to what you want. Then we develop plans for your approval and shift from the design process to the building process. We carefully select the lumber and begin cutting and shaping. We use an assortment of antique and modern tools, and we use a variety of finishing techniques.

Evan got his start in shop class and learned to design and build reproduction period furniture, keeping alive the tradition started by his grandfather in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  He uses traditional and modern tools, construction techniques and materials to build period and modern furniture and cabinets.