
Custom White Oak Desk

Bennett's Fine Woodworking shop
Jacob Schmitz
Hello and welcome to Schmitz Woodcraft!
Growing up in Southern California, I would help my Dad with different projects around the house. Everything from repairs to building large sheds and skateboarding ramps. In high school, I took wood shop and later would become the Foreman for a construction crew working in the backcountry in Yosemite National Park, setting up rustic camps in the Sierra Nevada. During the summers, I worked in construction, building new homes in the mountain town of Mammoth Lakes, California. While living in Yosemite, I became obsessed with rock climbing and started to travel to climb. After years of alpine climbing, I started guiding in Alaska, then the big mountains around the world. For over twenty years, I guided my guests to the summits of the biggest mountains on every continent, Summiting Mount Everest three times along the way. After moving to the Netherlands and starting a family, I started to gravitate back to woodworking, making furniture and gifts for friends and family. I attended the Bennett's Fine Woodworking School in Tennessee and work in a small woodshop in the Netherlands. I am still working in that woodshop, although now I am taking furniture commissions and making custom gifts that will last a lifetime.
