| Jeff Saine came to Virginia in 1982 from Washington State to persue a graduate degree in Anthropology. It did not take long to figure out that an academic career was not in the making. An interim job led to an apprenticeship with a luthier building guitars. "Guitars showed me what was possible with wood." This eventually led to full time work as a cabinetmaker. That was 21 years ago. "As long as I can remember I've been building things out of wood. I used the same principles to build my shop as when I built a tree house, and building furniture is not that different from making guitars." Saine Cabinetry was founded in 2005. |
Carl Tanous moved to Virginia with his family in 1995 from Colorado. His cabinetmaking career began when he was 18 working summer jobs between school, first as a "finisher" and then as a full time cabinetmaker. Of his 24 years in the field he says "it was a happy accident." |
