David Hunscher

The owner and craftsman

What started as a love for wood-working a desire to give nice things to
family, turned into Papa K Design. Once retired (and after recovering from
cancer), David Hunscher started using his woodworking skills for fun. He
loves going to wood shops and mills to buy their left-over exotic and
domestic woods to then find a new life for them. He blends and mixes the
wood pieces together to create original, simplified, and sturdy handmade
products. The hope is that others will enjoy and love how these treasures
revitalize their home environment.

Wood

The ideas for these pieces come from what David likes to make such as tables, mantels, various kinds of boards, and clocks. The wood we find or purchase is from David's cabinet maker's shop or from Armstrong Millworks in Heartland, Michigan. David mills, cuts, shapes, sands, and glues the pieces to fit the product. One the wood is formed and put together we finish the product with lacquer and polish or oil if it will be used for food serving purposes.  

To mention a few of the woods we use:
-Purple heart
-Snare wood
-Red heart
-Red & white oak
-Maple: rosewood, hard, wormy, & burl
​-African mahogany
-Burmese rosewood
-Zebra wood
-Spanish cedar
-Afzelia burl
-Leopard wood
-Padauk