Mind Your Business Woodworking

I have always enjoyed making things with wood, from the time I was a small kid. I would borrow my Dad’s tools and construct crude boxes. I upped my game in Junior High when I took wood shop and built my first nice piece of furniture, a rifle rack, which my Dad still uses to this day. After I had started my law enforcement career in 1998, started buying hand tools and created a lot of sawdust for awhile without really producing anything that didn’t wow anybody. After moving into a home with an attached garage, I quickly took over half of the garage and got a Craftsman miter saw, then a used Craftsman contractors table saw. I did some 2×4 garden benches for friends, some framed items for my wife. Over the years I made retirement boxes for guys I worked with as they retired. When I got within a year of my retirement, I figured I better find the next thing to do and saw my woodworking as an opportunity. A few months before I retired in June of 2022, I got my first laser engraver. Somewhere in this time frame someone suggested that I sale my products on Etsy. Well, a year later I took the leap of faith and created my Etsy shop offer my products. I soon learned that it would be a good idea to branch out and found My Community Made. I found My Community Made to be more in line with my small boutique wood shop. Doing the Ecommerce thing has been the learning adventure.  Oh, and the name Mind Your Business comes from the first currency offered by the Continental Congress and Ben Franklin. The Continental Dollar had a rising sun and sun dial on its face, along with “fugio” and “Mind Your Business”, which was to means “time flies, so mind your business.”