Garden & Gun

Out of the Wood(s)

Ben Balzer has worked with NASA, served as the CFO for a handful of California companies, and owned an internationally touted spice shop in San Francisco, but no matter what professional hat he put on, he never stopped woodworking. “I started when I was about five years old with just a little coping saw,” Balzer says. “And I’ve been filling up my garage with woodworking machines since I lived in L.A. making rockets twenty years ago.” In 2017, he finally turned his hobby

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