September 7, 2016 I was making wooden products for the home and office in the seventies, eighties and into the mid nineties. I participated in 30 to 40 art and craft shows a year. I traveled extensively throughout the East, from Boston to Miami and as far west as Kansas City and Madison, Wisconsin. Most of these events were weekend shows. So I was traveling and doing shows 4 or 5 days a week throughout the year. We made kitchen items such as a full line of laminated cutting boards, salt and pepper shakers, rolling pins, butcher block tables, etc. Probably 30 or 40 items. Then in the mid eighties we added a desk accessory line as well. So now I was carrying over fifty multiple items to each show and had about 15 employees helping me make several runs at a time. In the late eighties we added a…
Why I started making handcrafted and custom made cigar humidors
