The Workshop
A married couple making things by hand, on the water, in north Georgia.
Our Story
DeWolfe Wyrks is Jordan and Fenris DeWolfe — a married gay couple living on a houseboat in Georgia, making things with our hands in our spare time. What began as a way to wind down after long days has grown, slowly and on purpose, into a small side trade we love.
Jordan cuts the leather. Fenris strikes the metal. Neither of us has any interest in scaling up; we'd rather keep the bench small enough that we still recognize every piece that leaves it.
Commission a pieceThe Two Benches
DeWolfe Leather
Jordan handles every cut, stitch, and burnish on the leather side of the workshop. A former motion-graphics animator and film-industry veteran, with years as an indie director and a stretch as a gay men's life coach, he brings a designer's eye and a director's patience to a discipline that rewards both.
His pieces are minimalistic by intent — he leaves the leather room to tell the story of where it's been carried.
DeWolfe Metal
Fenris hammers, weaves, and finishes every metal piece. A Norse historian specializing in Norse gender studies, his work is informed by a deep love of the period — what he calls "archeology-grade" jewelry: pieces struck to look as though they'd been unearthed at a settlement dig.
The roads to the bench have been winding: Navy veteran, Union film-industry set decorator, country-music morning-show radio host, graphic artist, voice actor, ten years in marketing as a creative producer/director, and an Irish folk singer on the side. He brings all of it to the forge.
What we believe
"Real things age into themselves. The patina is the point."
We make heritage goods. That word gets thrown around — for us it means we'd rather you bought one wallet from us than three from anyone else. We use full-grain leather, solid copper and bronze, hand-stitching, hand-hammering. The pieces will look better in ten years than they do today.
When we're not at the bench, we're probably at a Ren Faire, on the water, or digging through a Norse text together. We bring all of that into the work.
Field Notes
Once a season — new pieces, small-batch drops, the occasional story from the bench. No noise.