Dale Hanson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But he's a peddler.
And the rent comes due.
He does the carving and sells the carving, pays the rent.
I said, I'm not going to be a peddler.
I said, I'm going to carve faithfully all winter long.
And when spring gets here, I'm going to ask all the stores to come by and see what they want to buy.
And I did it.
I carved all winter long.
And when spring got there, I could fill the table pretty much with carvings and invited the store owners to come by.
And they picked out virtually everything.
And at the end of about three hours, four hours, something like that, there wasn't a single piece on the table.
And I had orders for 450 more carvings.
Whoa.
Yes.
And it stayed like that for the next 20 years.
I never caught up in 20 years.
Or year after year.
And I would do a show, maybe, or call a store.
And they'd say, can you get this, this, this?
and they knew the quality level and they knew I would deliver and all that.