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Welcome to Hells Canyon Designs. We have an 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. He got me started in glass work at an early age.
I'm the one in the middle and over my lifetime have worked as glass artist, mechanic, cabinet maker, and currently work as a full time helicopter pilot fighting wildfires throughout the US.
My son on the left is a a Junior attending the U of U in Salt Lake City. He 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.
I traveled to a trade show in 2018 and saw my first laser engraver. After some thinking and deliberation I made the plunge and bought a used one. In the learning process I went back to my roots and decided to try and put some pictures on Yeti cups. Living in Idaho where the supreme game animal in the Rocky Mountain Elk I figured that was a good place to start. Here is the first in our Wildlife Series and I am still extremely proud of the results.
You probably have a friend that wears a hat about everywhere you have ever seen him. Yep, I am that guy. If i'm not in bed asleep I probably have a hat on.
After getting the laser engraver going and engraving I don't know how many tumblers I started seeing these Leather Patch Hats around. I figured I love hats, and had the majority of what I needed to make them. Like most things I have ever tried It was harder than I thought, but I kept going until I had messed it up enough times to where I was finally happy with the product.
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 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 plywood for a work bench 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. Our first prototype is the one on top, the final version is on the bottom. Maui was a pretty good place to sell Humpback Whale sun catchers and I made a lot of them.
