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Work with what you’ve got For Wall, quality control comes down to one thing, and it happens to be the thing he’s best at. “I keep every element of production under one roof. There’s no detail that I don’t personally attend to and I’ve got to say, it’s a bonus that I get paid to do this,” Wall laughed. “Working with my hands, working with wood has never really been work to me. I tell people it’s part of my DNA and honestly, “I grew up a Mennonite, so you can imagine that I’ve been around woodworking since before I can remember,” Wall explained. “When I was young, I couldn’t stay away from my Uncle Henry’s solid wood furniture business. The time I spent there really had an impact on me. I kind of took after him – and other people I knew – and started that’s what it feels like.” Maybe it is in his DNA

taking on small projects for friends and people in my family. I was one of those kids running up the driveway after school, but I wasn’t grabbing my hockey stick or getting on my bike. I was grabbing the sandpaper and getting back to work on a night stand or an end table.” Living the dream By the time he was 14-years old, Abe was an apprentice, working part-time for a kitchen cabinet manufacturing company owned by a Mennonite friend. “I spent the next 10 years honing my skills with several Mennonite kitchen companies,” he said. “At first, I was strictly assembly and installation but it wasn’t long until I was taking on more responsibilities, like spray finishing, design, foreman, and eventually subcontractor. I put everything into my pursuit of this trade and eventually I came to realize that what I really wanted was a business of my own, something that I could shape. And here we are.”

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NOVEMBER 2019 • SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE

SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 2019

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