The Maker
A Las Vegas native, ten years and more at the bench, building one piece at a time.
Silver State Woodworking is one person: Thomas Striegel. A Las Vegas native, he has spent more than a decade learning what different woods want to do and then building pieces that let them do it. Nothing here comes off an assembly line. Every board, rack, and shelf is made by hand, by him, from raw plank to finished piece.
That’s the whole idea behind the name. “Silver State” is Nevada — home — and the work is rooted here in the desert, not in some borrowed idea of a mountain cabin. What you get is a real maker in Las Vegas who put his own hands, and his own burned monogram, on the piece you’re about to own.
The grain is the design. My job is to get out of its way.
Wood first, always
Most mass-produced wood is finished to look uniform — every board sanded and stained toward the same flat sameness. That’s the opposite of the point. A walnut end-grain checkerboard, a single bright maple stripe crossing dark grain, the figure that only shows up once the oil goes on: those are the reasons to choose a handmade piece. So the work is built to reveal them, not to hide them. No two pieces are exactly alike, and that variability is the value.
One maker, owner-operated
There’s no showroom staff and no middle layer. When you commission a piece, you’re talking to the person who will build it. That’s slower than a store shelf, and it’s meant to be — it’s how a cutting board becomes something you keep, gift, and remember, rather than something you replace.