Justin & Olga: Cowtown Wood Co

Justin & Olga: Cowtown Wood Co.

"Justin needed to be to become the master sawyer, and I needed to be a hardcore woodworking networker, and a social media expert, basically. Adding a whole other thing was just going to bog us down."

Olga

Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast. Today your host Steve Larosiliere sits down with Olga and Justin from Cowtown Wood Co. Justin and Olga are part of the newer wave of Woodpreneurs, as they started their business two and a half years ago doing small woodworking projects. Around that point they started listening to the podcast, which inspired the pair to invest in their own sawmill!

“It's almost kind of like you start to become more serious. We got the sawmill and right off the bat, I'm gonna have to just get on this thing and just tear stuff up for a while. I'm gonna have to mess some stuff up, I'm gonna have to figure out what I'm doing.

I don't come from a long line of sawyers or anything like that. I'm completely new. So that's what I did for the first month. I was still working full time and in my spare time, I would just grab whatever I could and just put it on the mill and just see how it runs. Like ‘Okay, this is kind of how this pushes vs this pushes.’

After that, after I felt more experienced with it, we decided to start taking on customers and stuff like that. It was almost instantly that we went from hobbyist to me quitting my job. The week of us going live with it, it was appointment after appointment after appointment. It was also overwhelming. Honestly, I wasn't ready for the full swing to happen that fast. But it was intentional, it was all planned. I mean, we put everything in place to make it happen that way.”