buckeyetd

Most of my wood working experience has come from the flooring trade. I installed hardwood & vinyl floors in and around the Columbus, Ohio area for 10 yrs. in the 80's and 90's. I then went to work for Honda of America mfg. building cars in Marysville, Ohio for the next 14 yrs. Everything was going pretty good and then something about a wall street bailout or something came along and a couple of years & home foreclosure later I ended up taking a buyout and somehow or another I ended up living in Tampa, Fla. Life is funny, ain't it. Anyway after suffering a couple of blown out shoulders from working over head in a repetitive motion for many yrs. it turns out nobody wants to hire me and I turned to woodworking again to take my mind off of the whole mess and I'm trying to build an online business building Adirondacks. I started out up in Columbus, Ohio before the bank kicked us out on the street building adirondacks from used pallets, then once I got pretty good at it I turned to Red Cedar since it was readily available and easy to work with. We moved to Florida and I tried my hand at the flooring business but with cheap labor prices and high fuel cost I've discovered that my days laying floors is pretty much over. So this brings us to today. I'm building Adirondacks out of Cypress straight from the sawmill and using a design I found on the web - www.jakeschair.com and trying to sell them online. It's by far the best chair I've built to date, very comfortable and extremely sturdy with good looks to boot.

-- http://www.gulfcoastchairs.com