Randy’s Story
Randy’s experience with woodworking didn’t begin with a CNC machine.
He grew up in Habersham County, Georgia, and spent years working in residential construction throughout Northeast Georgia, particularly in the Rabun County area. He built homes and log cabins, worked in finish carpentry, and learned his trade the way many craftsmen do—by showing up, working hard, and learning how to build something well.
A Change in the Plan
After September 11, 2001, construction in their part of Georgia slowed dramatically. Randy had a family to provide for, and when the work he had always depended on was no longer dependable, he pivoted.
He earned his CDL and started driving a truck. It wasn’t the end of building. It was simply what needed to happen for his family when life changed the plan.
Finding His Way Back to Wood
In 2017, when work in Georgia had once again slowed, Randy, his wife, and their daughter moved to West Virginia for a new opportunity.
A few years later, COVID changed life for nearly everyone. During a time when so many people suddenly couldn’t work, Randy found himself returning to something he had known most of his life: woodworking.
It gave him a way to continue providing for his family while doing something he genuinely enjoyed. It also became a retreat during a time when the world felt uncertain. There was something steady about working with wood and with his hands—taking an idea, figuring out how to make it work, and ending with something real that hadn’t existed before.
It was in West Virginia that Randy discovered CNC woodworking. The technology was new to him, but building wasn’t. He learned it the same way he had learned his trade years earlier: by doing it. Trying things, making mistakes, solving problems, and getting better with every project.
What began as a practical way to keep working during an uncertain time became something he loved. And the idea behind Wooden Creations began to take shape.
One More Move West
Life kept changing. Their daughter grew up, moved out on her own, and eventually headed west to Oregon. Randy and his wife returned to Georgia for a time, but with their daughter now across the country and a new season of their own lives beginning, they started looking west too.
In 2023, they packed up and made the biggest move yet—eventually settling in Whitefish, Montana.
Montana holds their peace.
Georgia was where Randy grew up, raised his family, learned his trade, and built most of his life. West Virginia was the unexpected chapter that brought him back to woodworking and introduced him to CNC. Montana became the place he and his wife chose for what came next.
Still Building
Today, Randy still drives a truck for a living, but Wooden Creations gives him something different.
It’s his shop, his ideas, his hands, and the chance to build simply because he enjoys building.
He combines decades of construction and woodworking experience with CNC technology to create custom signs, personalized pieces, furniture, and the occasional project that begins with someone asking, “Think you could make this?”
Usually, Randy is willing to find out.
From building log homes in the mountains of North Georgia, to climbing into a truck when his family needed him to pivot, to rediscovering woodworking in West Virginia, and finally making sawdust in Northwest Montana, the road here hasn’t exactly been straight.
Whatever the next chapter required, Randy figured out how to build from there.