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Bio
Hi, I’m Duane an
Artist, husband and dad.
Since a young age I was
always creative,
building models,
hammering wood together
and just be
constructive. Also I did
take a lot of things
apart too. I had to
figure out how they
worked and were put
together. For many years
I had a handyman
business and a full on
wood shop.
Now that my son is 2.5
years old and has just
been totally addicted to
'diggers' for the past
year, he helped me come
up with this idea. I
would be drawing
pictures of diggers for
him to color all the
time. We also cut some
of them out and played
with them. Then it came
to me that why not build
him some out of wood.
With all the issues with
plastics these days
using a natural,
non-treated product, I
would at least know that
these were safe to play
with. After many
drawings, changes my son
doing the testing and
helping me put them
together, we had the
first great little
backhoe digger! Since
then we have built many
of them, painted them
with children’s
paints, some are multi colored, some all one.
We also created the
excavator so that when
we play together we both
have something different
to play with.
With time and play I
added the little hole
for the seat to place
the toy men into.
As I create these
myself, I can also
engrave names or logos
onto them so let me know
if you have any special
requests.
Our next toy that we are
working on is a dump
truck to go along with
the diggers!
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