STL274: Inside Highland Woodworking – FineWoodworking

The Highland Woodworking retailer began out in 1978 as Highland {Hardware}, an peculiar ironmongery store in midtown Atlanta. It was based by a younger couple who met at Georgia Tech, and after graduating and getting married, went to work collectively for an outdated Atlanta firm referred to as King {Hardware} (which had the excellence in 1886 of promoting to the druggist subsequent door the washtub used to combine the primary batch of Coca-Cola). After a 4 12 months bootstrap schooling within the instrument and {hardware} enterprise at King, the couple took out an SBA mortgage, rented a storefront close to their residence and solid their bread upon entrepreneurial waters.

Success within the type of loyal clients and brilliant, hardworking gross sales folks led to a prospering enterprise which quickly recognized itself as a specialist in woodworking instruments, hand instruments and provides. All the time dedicated to high quality and worth, Highland {Hardware} constructed a repute as a supply of dependable recommendation on the acquisition and use of the instruments it offered.

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