Pricing at a past AAW show in the late 80's

Hanging out at the old Shop off State street

Mitch Cleaning Up the Shop!!!

Doing the dirty work

Checking out the silent auction at the AAW show in Provo, Utah-1992

The two new employees at Tropical Exotic Hardwoods

Gathering wood the old fashion way!!!

Down by the Belize border-1986

Here I am next to a few huge Mahogany logs at a mill in Southern Mexico on the Belize border around 1986. These logs were trucked over from Guatemala through Belize. Not many are left.

They are milled into lumber and put into a drying rack standing up.

This allows the wood to dry naturally and take on a dark color. This method is not usually used today as suppliers want to KD the lumber to get it out faster. I have a pile of Mahogany that was dried like this from the 1950's.

Nice old picture of the old company truck

Here is the younger more slim Mitch of the late 1980's. My 1982 Chevy saw a lot of the back roads of Mexico hunting down wood. We would take it all over the US to trade shows!