What Can We Gain from Outdoor Sports?
So, here’s the thing – we’re all hustling, right? Whether you’re managing a team, sourcing products, or dealing with suppliers, life’s a grind. But let me tell you, stepping outside for a bit of outdoor sports can actually be a game-changer. We’re talking better focus, sharper decision-making, and hey, maybe even a little fun while […]
What Are Your Tips for Building Wooden Toys?
Building a wooden toy is easy. Building one that survives a two-year-old, passes a safety test and can be reordered to the same specification is a manufacturing problem, and almost all of it is decided before the first cut. Four things determine whether the product works: the moisture content of the timber, the treatment of […]
What Wood Garden Game Can Be Made Out of Pine Wood?
Pine is the cheapest timber we work with, and it is the one most often specified for the wrong product. Used properly it is a good material: light, stable when dried correctly, easy to machine and easy to paint. Used for the wrong game it fails within a season, and the failure is blamed on […]
Should I Start a Wooden Toy Business?
Whether a wooden toy business is worth starting depends on four things that have nothing to do with the product being attractive: whether you have a channel, whether you can fund two seasons of inventory, whether you have a reason to exist other than price, and whether you can get the same product twice. If […]
What is the Best Game to Play in Summer?
Summer puts three constraints on a game that the rest of the year does not: it is hot enough that running is a deterrent, the group is usually larger and mixed in age, and the ground is either hard and dry or soft and uneven. A game that ignores those constraints gets set up once […]
How far should you put the boards apart in cornhole?
Twenty-seven feet, measured from the front edge of one board to the front edge of the other. That is the regulation distance, it is 8.23 metres, and it is the number every other cornhole question depends on. Most backyard games are set up far too short, because 27 feet looks like a lot when you […]