Family Owned, Community Driven
I didn't grow up with tools around me. As a matter of fact, I grew up in a single parent home. My parents divorced when I was 10. I was always creative, but didn't know how to "build" things. As I got older I noticed my YouTube algorithm became more and more woodworking-based. I told my wife if I ever got a chance to start, I'd do it. Then one day in April of 2017 it happened...
While watching Pete Sveen of https://www.youtube.com/@DIYPETE he was celebrating a milestone he'd hit in his subscribers. As a way of paying it back Pete offered a tool scholarship where you needed to submit a video to enter. My kids and I went to work. My daughter and 3 sons build a rough sawhorse out of WOOD tools I had cobbled together from scraps I'd found. A spindle top for a circular saw was placed on my oldest son's thumb and he spun it manually. I got a long piece of wood and made it into a two-person "push/pull" saw. We even hot glued 2 pieces of wood to make a couple of hammers. At the end of the video the sawhorse collapsed, and the kids laughed. WE WON!
I received a personal check from Pete in the amount of $250 which I used at the age of 41 to purchase my first power tools EVER! We started with corn hole boards, and made them for a little more than a year. My wife and I got the kids involved, and we made enough boards and bags to get us to Disney in October of the following year. On the way home my kids asked the question, "Dad, can we please stop making corn hole boards." I think I burned them out on them...
I moved on to pens, and we still turn them, but it continued to grow from there. 9 years later we bought the local hardwood dealership, and are now serving our local community with a national focus to grow our business in to a multi-channel business that not only provides lumber and products, but also a deeper purpose.
I want to find kids like me and work with them to spark that creativity, show them there is more to life than video games and screen time, and to help them find their purpose as creatives and entrepreneurs!