In many ways, the pandemic was a thief. It stole our freedom to travel and move around, to be with loved ones and meet new people face to face. Some even lost the job security they had come to rely on. But for others, the pandemic ultimately gave much more than it took.

With his full-time construction job on hold, Joshua Fischer relieved pandemic stress and boredom by escaping to his home workshop, where he revisited his longtime hobby of knife making.