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'Butler Built' Woodworking
by MILLPOND
pillar of business
Y O U N G E N T R E P R E N E U R : E L I B U T L E R
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WOODWORKING: BUTLER BUILT
A young guy with a passion and heart for woodworking
@butlerbuilt2019
SAM: When did you start woodworking?
ELI: I started woodworking in freshman or sophomore year, about 2018. I officially started my woodworking business, Butler Built, in 2019.
SAM: Tell me about your woodworking experience (what you started doing and what you ' ve transitioned your business into)?
ELI: It started with smaller projects and playing around with woodworking. I made a lot of small items like swords and little projects for people that I loved. As time has passed, I now do custom woodworking projects for people, cutting boards, tables, epoxy projects, and really anything anyone throws at me.
SAM: What do you feel like was the turning point for your woodworking business? Like where you really started to feel like
‘I'm on top of the world?’
ELI: I would say everything changed when I started working for Mr. Black at Black Forest Sawmill. He taught me how to do everything, and do it better. He taught me how to be more precise with my cuts, everything I know about epoxy, and especially about all different types of trees and wood.
SAM: Where do you see your woodworking business going?
ELI: I plan to continue working for Mr. Black as long as I can and doing my woodworking business on the side.
SAM: Where do you get your inspiration from?
ELI: Mr. Black definitely is number one, probably because he has an awesome business. He's a good person, and he's generous with what he gets. And that's why he's so prosperous. It's because of his generosity.
Eli spends time within his woodworking business selling his products online as well as in local art and craft shows, like a most recent one at the Dayton Redbud Festival with his fiancé, Kelsey.
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