Zackarya Leck chisels the finishing touches on a pergola made from salvaged lumber.
Zackarya Leck has added wood construction from to his eight-year career as an iron smith. His “Hand-Hewn Lumber” offers builders and architects a local alternative of environmentally-sensitive material for building projects.
Lumber such as the timbers used in the pergola pictured above can often be obtained for a lower cost, Leck says.
He obtained the wood used in the pergola project from trees that had been flooded in the construction of a road.
“Just to salvage them was a big deal,” Leck says, “And the finished product is about as ‘green’ as you could want, because there’s no industrial milling.”
Leck uses traditional, hand-held, human-powered tools.
One of his clients, Marcia Spees, praises Leck as an artist, craftsman and inventor.
Leck can be reached at 376-4243, or at Zack_leck@yahoo.com.
