My name is Tyler Sauter. I am a designer, builder, inventor, and adventurer.
I have been building things ever since my dad gave me my first toolbox with a claw hammer, a handsaw, and some nails. Later, I started building boats and eventually went to school for traditional wooden boatbuilding. Since then I have built boats, furniture, puzzle boxes, cabinets, surfboards, lock picks, musical instruments, tiny homes, crossbows, Surf Saunas, custom motorcycles and more.
I design virtually everything that I build and I take the cowboy engineer approach to invention. This occasionally leads to the inevitable failures, but I view these as all part of the journey along the road that is my creative process.
Over the years I have branched out from my beginnings in woodworking and now work with wood, metal, leather, fabric, bone, and pretty much every other material I come across and take an interest in. I am constantly experimenting with new building techniques and seeking to expand the breadth of my skill sets. To me, each new skill opens up new horizons of what I can dream up and create.
My projects have appeared on Boing Boing, Gizmodo, Uncrate, Outside Magazine online, Fox News Online, Bless This Stuff, and in the book The New Nomads. People from all over the world, both famous and unsavory, have purchased my work.
Feel free to contact me if you want something designed and/or built, want to purchase anything I have made, or want to say hi.