It Wouldn't Be an Adventure Without a Few Bumps

This spring has been our busiest yet. More orders than we've ever seen, more excitement around our products than we could have imagined, and more appreciation for this community than we know how to express. But we'd be doing you a disservice if we didn't share the full picture.

Right in the middle of our busiest season, the ongoing conflict in the Middle East caused aluminum prices to spike. Manufacturers across the industry rushed to secure whatever inventory they could find, and our supplier ran out of material almost overnight. It wasn't the first supply chain jolt we've felt this year — tariff uncertainty had already been rattling material costs for months. Overwhelming spring orders on top of all of that made for some stressful days. Three years of building taught us to be ready for anything. This spring put that to the test.

Matthew spent days on the phone and email, working through supplier after supplier, trying to find material in the thicknesses we require. It wasn't easy. But he found one. The material arrived Wednesday, and our laser cutter is back to work. Just another day in the small biz life.

We're sharing this because we think transparency matters. We're not a big company with deep inventory buffers and backup suppliers on speed dial. We're a small team that makes everything locally, and when things get hard we lean on Matthew's 30 years of manufacturing and design experience to find creative solutions and keep pushing forward. When the world doesn't cooperate, we figure it out.