Now that you have such fantastic ability, what can you do with it? How about taking a monster, 34" diameter red oak tree and cutting it into the primary roof timbers of a post & beam barn! All of the preliminary cutting done with an "off the shelf" chainsaw equipped with just a 20" bar! And all of the cutting done just where the tree landed when it was felled! One man in less than 8 hours. Accurate to + or - 1/4" on a 12" x 12" beam.
Camera Girl & I met in the early 70's when we were staff members at a children's Bible camp, and soon after graduating High School I went to work residential home builder/general contractor who put me through my apprenticeship to become a Journeyman Carpenter.
By the time 1978 rolled around we had married, produced 1 tiny infant, completed my 4 year carpenter apprenticeship program, become a Journeyman Carpenter, purchased 40 acres of farm/forest land and moved "up north" to pursue a dream of building Scandinavian Full Scribe Log Homes.
Over the course of the next 14 years we built 10 full scribe log homes, did the the carpenter work and giant log trusses for a convention center and produced 2 more offspring. Also during that time we developed the initial tenon cutting design that would eventually birth Tenonizer Technology LLC. and built our first high-bred Log Accented, Conventional Built Home. Incorporating what we considered the best of both worlds, we put log posts & beams, log floor joists, a log circle stairway and log handrail on the inside of the house, and low maintenance, highly weather resistant ruggedly handsome product on the outside of the home.
Then came our second year of high-transition; 1992. We sold the 2 homes we owned, purchased a remote chunk of woods/water property a bit further north and began the business called Tenonizer Technology LLC. Over the next few years Tenonizer developed an assortment of log furniture/log handrail building machinery which was sold and shipped across the US, Canada, and Newfoundland. There was radius shoulder tenon cutters, from the simple TC 22, the giant and totally automated TC 338, and the compact but fully fast and automated TC 300. There was also sanding machines, log corner notcher's, tilting column drill press, and laser guided drills. We pressed to put the best, log furniture, log handrail, log accent, processing/building ability within reach of the average homeowner, builder, contractor and shop owner. We built and sold a lot of stuff.
Next came the beginning of instructional video portion of our endeavor, Log Furniture 101 was the first video we produced in the late 90's, with 2 more Log Handrail and Stairway Log Handrail videos close on its heals.
Shortly after 9/11 struck we teamed up with a producer who assisted us with the Outdoors Channel TV series A Piece of the Woods, a 13 episode series which aired on the Outdoors Channel in 2004, we then fitted portions of that series which was broadcast on PBS. In 2013 and 2014 the bulk of that series was placed on our Youtube channel, Tenonizer, log furniture, timber frame, and Life.
It is our pleasure to have you join us on this journey
