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I want to welcome you to Hells Canyon Designs. We have a interesting family and a really cool story. My dad to the right has been a high school teacher, stained-glass artist, is a published author and into his 80th year is writing and building scale wooden wagons and writing.
I'm the one in the middle and over my lifetime have worked as glass artist, mechanic, cabinet maker, and work as a full time helicopter pilot fighting wildfires throughout the US.
My son on the left is a a Freshman attending the U of U in Salt Lake City and has plenty of experience in the family trade keeping orders filled while I'm on the road.
Kirby rounds out the team lurking in the background. Sounding board and product stress testing is his specialty.
We started as a Art Glass company. 25 years ago I was sandblasting pictures and art on glass with detail not matched at that time. This is a piece that was donated to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in 2018. The glass is 1/2 inch thick Starfire Glass, the wood is Bubinga and Wenge. The base hides a full RF controlled LED system with color changing and on off control.
I have always loved the way light travels through glass or acrylic. It will travel through and you can't see it unless there is a mark or defect in it. I have spent countless hours learning how to control those defects to pickup the light. Whether its by sandblasting or laser engraving it is a very cool art form. I don't sell many of these at the price point is pretty high. Materials and electronics are much easier to come by now than they were 25 years ago on Maui 2500 miles from land. In the beginning I used neon light to illuminate the glass. I still prefer that light source but its extremely challenging to find an artist to work with now.
I had a little art glass business in Maui for 6-7 years. It started with a couple of tools some glass and a piece of wood on a garbage can outside our little place in Maui. I have heard if you're not embarrassed by the first piece you put out you waited too long. Round one on top, round two on the bottom. Maui was a pretty good place to sell Humpback Whale sun catchers and I made a lot of them.
