ABOUT

🔨 About Gavin Lottering

Hi, I’m Gavin — a woodworker, maker, and lifelong experimenter based in Ontario, Canada.

My journey into woodworking began with a deep respect for tools, materials, and traditional craft. From salvaging fallen branches after a storm to carving functional or sculptural pieces by hand, I’ve found woodworking to be both grounding and creatively limitless. Whether I’m working with rough logs or refined lumber, I’m drawn to the transformation of raw wood into something purposeful, lasting, and beautiful.

While I often work with hand tools like saws, planes, and carving knives, I also explore older and newer methods — including decortication with a brick hammer, experimenting with unusual grain, or adapting digital designs into physical builds. You’ll find a mix of rustic technique and intentional design throughout my projects.

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🔥 A Maker With Range

In addition to woodworking, I’ve recently been venturing into metal casting — learning the fundamentals of working with molten materials to shape hardware, tools, and small art objects. There’s something powerful about combining wood and metal: two elemental materials that have built civilizations, now coming together in handmade craft.

I also have a background in digital media, philosophy, and self-taught science, which informs my process and curiosity. I believe making is a form of thinking — and I try to bring that mindset into every project I take on.

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🪵 What I Make

• Handmade tools and components

• Carved wooden forms (spoons, mallets, furniture parts)

• Experimental sculpture and decor

• Custom concept builds (prototypes, replicates or props)

 

🧰 Why I Do It

I make things because I need to — to explore, to understand, and to connect. Craft, for me, is a way of returning to slower knowledge. It’s hands-on philosophy. And it’s one of the most human things we can do.

Thanks for stopping by. If you’d like to collaborate, commission a piece, or talk shop — get in touch.