Nearly a lifelong backgammon player, (and still a novice) my four siblings and I were taught to play at a young age by our mother. We continued the tradition by teaching our 16 children to play. (At our annual family reunion, you will always find at least one competitive game of backgammon being played in nearly every room)!

Legacy boards evolved initially out of necessity for a bigger more functional board to play on with my 4 growing boys. That board is still in use today! Its success inspired me to create them each a custom board of their own. I got more leather and was on my way. During those immersive projects I came up with processes and tools, some designed on notebook paper others adapted from tools used in other disciplines, to result in our current process. Self-teaching all the while.

Once each of my boys had a board of his own and my passion and desire to create growing, I had to find a new outlet. I began experimenting with live edge slabs, resulting in my first backgammon table, and then a 2nd and a 3rd. But what does one do with all these tables?

That’s when I began donating them to local charities for auction, and they were selling! I was giving back to the community and selfishly, it allowed me to keep making them, doing what I love.

I spent my career in sales and marketing and understand the complexity of marketing a product to be valued by multiple generations. This requires extraordinary elements carefully combined with top quality materials, pride and hands on craftsmanship.