My dad was always one to resort to figuring out how to fix something or how to make something, rather than fall back on simply rushing to the store. That's way it had to be growing up on a farm in Northern Saskatchewan.  The stores of Meadow Lake were a day away, but the wood in the woodshed, cut from poplar, or spruce, was in the backyard. So as we purchased our first house, and as I acquired a few tools of my own, I learned by doing, and following the how-to articles in Wood and Canadian Woodworker and made some furniture and hot pot stands, and scroll saw puzzles. 30+ years have lent a number of learning by doing, by it wrong, and learning how to do it right. Now I work through a fairly consistent process of prototyping, building the first production model (our house and cabin are full of first editions) then improving the production for final builds for customers. We have invested in new tools to replace those still in use from my first workshop in my first garage, to investing in new technology like laser printers. Now we specialize in building high quality wood works with custom designed laser-printed graphics.