Marshall Fletcher

Marshall Fletcher comes from a long line of woodworkers. He still has his dad’s No. 3 Stanley bench plane and a Rhodesian teak chest built by his grandfather. Born in Zimbabwe, Fletcher spent seven weeks after college traveling the United States. Later, when he got a resident visa, he had only four months to use or lose it so he sold his engineering business and arrived in Washington, D.C., with his wife, infant daughter, and a chest of favorite hand tools. “Selling most of your stuff is a very liberating experience,” he says.