Family Owned, Community Driven
Maybe you've stood in a big-box aisle staring at warped, sticker-graded lumber and thought, this isn't good enough for what I'm building. That's exactly why Goliath exists.
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 DIY Pete on YouTube, 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 three sons built a rough sawhorse out of 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 two 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 the following October. 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 kept growing from there. Nine years later we bought the local hardwood dealership, and now we're serving our community with a national focus to grow into a multi-channel business that provides not just lumber and products, but a deeper purpose.
I want to find kids like me and work with them to spark that creativity, show them there's more to life than video games and screen time, and help them find their purpose as creatives and entrepreneurs.
That's still what this yard is about. Every board we mill and grade by hand, we treat like it's going into somebody's heirloom — because for a lot of you, it is. Come see what's in stock, ask us anything, and let's build something worth passing down.