About The Sawdust Bandit

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For years I was a sales and business man wearing a suite and tie and running the rat race. Helping people with their 401(k) or IRA's and selling cars.  I grew up around the "old-school" sales environment where guys would keep a bottle of Scotch in their desk just to get by.  Some days you made $5,000 and others you made ZERO.  After a little bit of success, and a ton of failures, I decided to trade in the white-collar for a blue one with the support of my beautiful wife.   The idea of woodworking was never part of the plan.  One day my wife told me that she needed a table for our living room. We just happened to be getting rid of a lot of shipping pallets at work and I was able to take some home and start trying to make a table.  That table created an itch that I cannot finish scratching.  After a few ideas had come to fruition, and I was left looking at tangible items that I made from some raw materials and my hands, I knew that building furniture was what I wanted to do with my life moving forward.  It was enjoyable, rewarding and most of all, not sales.  As my skills and techniques continue to grow, so does the standard of furniture that I build.  I can honestly say that designing and building furniture has become better than any old bottle of Scotch sitting in a desk ever was!