Handcrafted In The Beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The UP Shop is a custom wood working facility located in the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan that builds high quality wood products as well as manufacturing our own signature product lines.
The UP Shop was built in 1997 as a place to work on home projects and the base for other building projects in the Bloch Compound. Many unique projects were built here and installed in other buildings.
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After many requests by visitors to the Compound, Rob Bloch, the designer and craftsman of the projects, decided to design and build small items such as wine racks, book shelves, cutting boards and other wood works for members of the family and some friends. Throughout the next few years the requests for wood products kept increasing along with the degree of complexity.
Every project is designed here and most products are one of a kind. All the wood products are hand made and hand finished in the UP Shop. Particular care is witnessed in each and every wood product. There are no short cuts.
When ever possible, the raw wood materials are harvested from the surrounding areas like; Drummond Island, DeTour, Raber and Cedarville all located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.