From a desk job
to a workbench.

Hi, I'm Grandpa J

Every piece, proofed and made by hand.

I spent decades in IT, the kind of work where you rarely get to hold what you made at the end of the day. When I retired, I wanted the opposite of that — something physical, something a little slower, something I could hand to a person and watch them actually like it.

That's where 262Workshop started: one laser engraver, a stack of wood and slate, and a habit of proofing every single order myself before it gets cut. Two years and a few hundred orders later, that habit hasn't changed — whether it's one coaster for someone's anniversary or three hundred gifts for a company holiday party.

262 Finds grew out of the same instinct. Etsy is great for one piece at a time, but when a wedding, a company, or a school wanted something bigger — a live engraving station, a bulk order, a fundraiser — they needed a place to actually talk to a person about it. So now there's this.