About Tofino Woodshop

My name is Rick Jamieson, and I started Tofino Woodshop in 2018. Woodworking had been part of my life for years, but Western Red Cedar—and the care required to work with it properly—gradually became the direction I wanted the shop to take.

I grew up in Tofino, British Columbia, surrounded by old-growth cedar of the West Coast. The shop is no longer located there, but the name still reflects where I came from and the connection I developed with the material. I was also influenced by a local craftsman who had spent many years making Adirondack chairs, and those chairs became the starting point for much of my own work.

Today, Adirondack chairs remain the main part of what I make, along with matching outdoor pieces and a growing range of other cedar goods. I source the old-growth Western Red Cedar logs for all of the products I make and mill the lumber in-house, which allows me to choose the clear, knot-free boards I want before the building even begins.

Tofino Woodshop is a small Canadian business, and I am involved in each stage of every order—from preparing the lumber and creating each piece from start to final sanding, packing and shipping the finished product. Keeping the shop small allows me to take my time with the details and make the kind of product I would be satisfied receiving myself.

Over the years, I have shipped my work to customers across Canada and to the United States, Europe and Australia. No matter where an order is going, it is still made and prepared by me here in the shop.

Learn more about our milling process here