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Can We Build 25 Cutting Boards in 2 Days?

Nov 9, 2020
4 min

Can We Build 25 Cutting Boards in 2 Days?

That's the question we set out to answer this past week! And it wasn't for click bait. It wasn't to sound cool or to get likes online. It was a LEGITIMATE goal that we set for ourselves!! You may think it sounds crazy, but that's okay, because WE DID TOO! But we wanted it to be crazy. Actually, we needed it to be crazy.... So all of this started with a bit of a thought experiment: We wanted to figure out what the max capacity of our little shop was. Why? Because we knew we'd

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Jennie

Nov 2, 2020
5 min

How We Chose Our Business Name

It's what shows up instantly on all of your social media platforms! It's what clients see and remember on your website! It's what you put on t-shirts, stickers, and mugs! Picking a good name for your business is important for MANY reasons, but we've gotten quite a few questions from people on what a good name actually looks like and why we chose ours. If you're having a hard time choosing a name, or you're stuck between a couple options and just can't find the right one....yo

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Jennie

Oct 26, 2020
3 min

Starting Our Business...Again..

So you're probably thinking to yourself...."Wow, since they've already had to start their business once when they lived in North Dakota, they should be experts at it now in Houston!" HA! hahahaha Not quite...I mean, yes, some things are easier and we're a little bit better at predicting problems, but starting a business is just a difficult thing to do all around. Basically, we want to make sure we do everything right this time around and really get organized and create solid

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Jennie

Oct 12, 2020
4 min

Our Cutting and Serving Board Packaging

If you've been around for a while, you'll know it's been a long journey from building our serving boards, to finishing, to testing, to creating a customer experience, to refinishing services, and FINALLY....to PACKAGING!! We took some time to research what type of packing we wanted to go with...but here's what we ultimately decided on ....(for now).... Check out the video we made all about it! Like we talked about in our previous blog post, we need to keep the cost of these b

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Jennie

Sep 5, 2020
4 min

Best Selling Cutting Board Prototype

If you read our last post and watched our last video, you’ll know that the past few months have been spent prototyping the projects we plan to batch out! We’re looking for simple, yet high quality designs that can be built quickly and in a very organized and repeatable way! Now that we’ve figured out our charcuterie board process, we’ve moved on to the cutting boards we plan to sell to realtors as closing gifts for their clients. Before we started the process of nailing down

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Jennie

Aug 2, 2020
3 min

Serving Board Prototypes

Welcome back to yet ANOTHER addition to the beloved serving board series! If you haven’t been keeping up with the series and how/why we started it, check out the previous blog posts below: Building Testing Finishing Long story long, we started out by making 100 serving boards to test our processes when it came to purchasing lumber, milling, cutting to size, sanding, and finishing. We wanted to figure out where our sticking points would be and fix them in our checklists before

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Jennie

Jul 12, 2020
4 min

Growth is hard.

We learned this the difficult way as we finished up creating our new studio. You’re probably thinking…what can POSSIBLY be so difficult about decorating a stupid home office?! Well…let’s start where our struggles began… If you want to see how we conquered our demons in video form, check out the video below! Check out the video we made on creating our first studio space! We started our studio creation journey by making a huge two-person desk that would allow both Davis and I t

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Should You Sell on Facebook Marketplace?

Jennie

Jun 29, 2020
6 min

Should You Sell on Facebook Marketplace?

Facebook Marketplace has absolutely exploded over the last couple of years as it becomes one of the most popular online platforms to sell new or used goods. Annndddd….since a lot of us makers have a seller’s mindset….it begs the question, “Would I be able to sell what I build on Facebook Marketplace and get paid what it’s WORTH?!” Well….it just so happens that the members of the Stud Stack had that very same question and came up with an entire LIST of things that they do to m

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Jennie

May 28, 2020
4 min

Work From Home Studio Desk

We were able to make it back to Texas for a bit and we decided to knock out a project we have been meaning to accomplish for MONTHS now! In ONE weekend we built a desk for our new office/recording studio! Check out the video below! But this video also had… MANY, MANY adventures wrapped up inside of it as well… The Desk Build Ever since we moved into our new place in Texas, we’ve been wanting an office space that would be perfect for everyday work (editing, filming, recording,

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Jennie

May 21, 2020
4 min

Finishing Kits for Serving Boards

You may be wondering…”What the heck ever happened to those poor 3 serving boards you put in the dishwasher a while back?! Are they okay? Have you forgotten about them? Will they ever be loved again?!” (And if you missed the post about the boards and the dishwasher, check it out here!) Okay…maybe you guys don’t worry about the status of our serving boards THAT much…but the answer is… I know this hurts to look at. Thankfully this is the first and last time we will put our own s

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How do I stay organized when WORK doesn’t TELL me to?!

Jennie

Apr 10, 2020
3 min

How do I stay organized when WORK doesn’t TELL me to?!

I’ve been meaning to write this post since before quarantine even started…so either I need to take some of my own advice OR I simply waited until an even more appropriate time to post this. ….Let’s just say it was the latter, lol Thanks for obliging. This is an issue Davis and I hear a lot about from hobbyists, side-hustlers, and even full time woodworking business owners! Our day jobs are often quite good at providing us with a very structured daily schedule that comes with

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Jennie

Mar 24, 2020
2 min

How We Respond & 40% Off

We truly hope that this post finds you safe and in good health! These last couple months have been a crazy time for us all (especially the last 2 weeks!!) We’ve seen schools close, people quarantined, and essentially all commercial flight diminish. But perhaps the most relevant effect of the COVID-19 virus has been the sheer amount of people working from home and telecommuting. All of a sudden even those with the most rigid and repetitive of daytime routines are left wonderin

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Serving Board Finishes…and a Dishwasher…

Jennie

Feb 20, 2020
4 min

Serving Board Finishes…and a Dishwasher…

First off – it’s the morning before we leave for WorkbenchCon 2020!! Wooo! In 10 hours we’ll be on the road to Atlanta to meet some awesome new people and hang out with those we met last year. If that’s any of you reading this – we’re stoked to see you! Seriously – I’m chugging this coffee in preparation. If you’ve been following along with our 100 Serving Board series, you know that so far we’ve built 100 serving board/charcuterie boards to sell to realtors as closing gifts.

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CNC Lessons While Making Christmas Gifts…

Jennie

Nov 28, 2019
3 min

CNC Lessons While Making Christmas Gifts…

If the title of this blog seems kind of random and passive aggressive…it is. Making Christmas gifts for our friends and family this year turned out to be very informative as we learned some new things about our X-Carve CNC router. It started out as an innocent day making 3 different custom signs and some corn hole boards. Until we ran into an issue and realized what we were lacking was a solidified system on how we operate the CNC as a business. If you want to watch the whole

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Jennie

Nov 21, 2019
5 min

Making 100 Serving Boards?!

So here we are…in a new city (a HUGE city)…with our shop all set up and ready to go…but we know NOBODY! This may sound a bit scary or sketchy or intimidating, but it’s the reality of the situation. So where do we go from here? We need to find clients who have the potential to lead to more clients and who have good connections within the community. If you remember the post we did on our Modern Sliding Barn Door, we talked about that EXACT person…realtors!! So, logically, that’

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Jennie

Oct 31, 2019
4 min

Angled Coffee Table

So we’re pretty much all moved into our new place down here and are now figuring out all of the furniture we will need to build for ourselves. As much as I wish we could have fit our couches, coffee table, kitchen table, and entertainment center in the trailer – we sadly could not. Like not even close. Not a single one of those items made the move with us. Instead we sold them all to re-build and re-buy once we got down here to Texas. So we bought a new sectional to go in our

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Jennie

Oct 30, 2019
3 min

This is Us!

Hi there! This blog post is going to be a little different than our usual “how we built this” or “how we priced this” type content. It’s one we’ve wanted to do for a while, so we’re pretty excited to share it with you!! A lot of you know that we’re “a young couple starting a woodworking business because when we graduated college, typical furniture was WAY too expensive for us – so we decided to build it instead”. That’s the canned Instagram bio story. Well, here’s some more b

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Jennie

Oct 24, 2019
5 min

Our Finished Shop!

It feels SO good to finally be able to say this after a LONG week of re-arranging, sweeping, lifting heavy tools, and building shop furniture… OUR SHOP IS FINALLY DONE!! As much as we wished we could just spend an entire month getting every single detail of this space EXACTLY the way we want it…we kind of had to knock it out as quickly as possible – and here’s why: Every week the shop isn’t finished and we’re not building….we’re not making money!! We quit our full time jobs f

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Jennie

Oct 17, 2019
5 min

Building Our NEW SHOP!!

So for the past few months we’ve been talking about how when we moved down to Texas from North Dakota we would be tearing down our entire shop and having to build it all over again. Well, the time has come and here we are. With a garage full of boxes covered in tape and moderately helpful labels. Because we need to get out and start finding clients, we VERY quickly need to get unpacked, figure out an efficient shop layout, and build storage/shelving units! We can’t really mak

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Jennie

Sep 1, 2019
3 min

Why Did We Start Sketching?!

Because we’re secretly amazing artists who just decided to build furniture?? Definitely not…(Ha! let’s be honest we’re both nerds who decided to pick up a pencil). Nope, we got into sketching furniture because we learned that our clients really liked it and it got us all on the same page of what the piece was going to look like in the end! There were no surprises or unexpected elements when it came time for the reveal because the customer had already seen the details going in

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