Sawmill Business Podcast

On the show today is Bryant Dickens from Dickens and Son Sawmill. A fish biologist by trade, Bryant fell in love with live edge furniture in college. His passion really took off 11 years ago when he learned how expensive live edge furniture was, decided to figure out how to make his own designs, and sourced his wood from local tree service companies from what they considered their “tree waste” piles.  Bryant originally paid for local businesses to mill the logs for him but after increasing his earnings selling these slabs and also by making furniture, he purchased his first mill, which was soon upgraded to a Wood-Mizer LT35. He became very passionate about using a resource that is historically underutilized in Arizona, and salvaging wood from the urban forest became his way of combating that waste. Bryant explains further that 75% of what he does is sell raw slabs, and he is certain to pay for his logs even if folks would otherwise be dropping them off at the dump. He does this to give fair value to the tre