Tim Willis

Tim was raised fixing stuff. His dad was a high school industrial arts teacher who was always repairing and rebuilding everything from lawnmowers to Stearman bi-planes and west coast salmon trollers. His mom taught him arts, crafts and homemaking skills by never throwing out anything useful and making the things she wanted instead of buying. With an awesome set of tools (his dad’s), wooden go-carts, bicycle repairs and modifications were a natural progression. $500 cars and $100 motorcycles came next which provided more of the solid building blocks that fuel his love of DIY projects. After a couple years of college new opportunities to took him to Alaska and have led to a 30 year career in the fishing industry in which he obtained a 1600 ton masters license and a 4000 horse power designated duty engineer’s license. His marriage to Annie and the birth of his three children gave him the opportunity to create a home, which he did in his now usual style of “do it yourself!” Several of them required extensive work which included executing a full remodel and most aspects of home building and landscaping. Today, he enjoys sharing his passion of reusing, repairing, rebuilding and repurposing with his family, friends and anyone else who shares the passion of seeing ideas become reality.

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