Sawmill Business Podcast

Walt Primrose: Primrose Woodworks  “I decided to move back to Rhode Island.   I saw more opportunities for the type of work I wanted to do. You know, just bigger and better things  out here. Rhode Island is pretty affluent. I don't fall into that category, but it's a place where they value the work I wanted to do. I figured I needed to be in a place like this to flourish in that line of work.”  ∙ Walt Primrose  Welcome to a brand new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast. Today, your host Steve Larosiliere sits  down with Walt Primrose, the owner of Primrose Woodworks. The transition from working with his father-in-law as a contractor to becoming an independent craftsman wasn't easy at first—it took a lot of time and effort for Walt to get his business off the ground. But now, nine years later, it seems like all that hard work paid off; Primrose Woodworks is still going strong!  “I would literally drive around and find job sites that were houses being built. I'm 10 minutes from the ocean here, and along