OUR STORY:
The seeds that gave birth to C.F.S. were sown over 20 years ago, out of an American garage: the creation and personal crusade of a former carpenter/machinist. First as a master fabricator and foreman and then as a shopkeeper, our founder has spent over 25 years competing against automation and large-scale manufacturing. As other specialists came to call CFS home, they brought their own talents, tricks and ideas to the company.
Even with multiple operators bringing varied skill-sets to the table, we know that we need to employ every mechanical and procedural advantage that we can develop in order to stay competitive.
Now, after years of using them in house, CFS is proud to offer some of its most useful innovations to the public! We hope that our patented equipment and accessories will bring to others the same efficiency and success that we've enjoyed.
We are problem solvers, we are known for taking people’s challenges and helping them work through them, and find a way to the solution. We don’t believe a challenge has to remain constant for a craftsman or a business. We believe there is a solution, whether that is a technique, a tool, or a machine. We then design, engineer, and build the solution from start to finish. We are in business in providing efficiency, reliability, and ease to all the craftsman and tradesman in the world.
What separates us is our ability to stay grounded. We don’t put ourselves above our competition because we know everything can be improved. An invention or improvement is always right around the corner and if we lose focus on that fact we know we will get left behind. There is no best way, but there always is a better way.
The seeds that gave birth to C.F.S. were sown over 20 years ago, out of an American garage: the creation and personal crusade of a former carpenter/machinist. First as a master fabricator and foreman and then as a shopkeeper, our founder has spent over 25 years competing against automation and large-scale manufacturing. As other specialists came to call CFS home, they brought their own talents, tricks and ideas to the company.
Even with multiple operators bringing varied skill-sets to the table, we know that we need to employ every mechanical and procedural advantage that we can develop in order to stay competitive.
Now, after years of using them in house, CFS is proud to offer some of its most useful innovations to the public! We hope that our patented equipment and accessories will bring to others the same efficiency and success that we've enjoyed.
We are problem solvers, we are known for taking people’s challenges and helping them work through them, and find a way to the solution. We don’t believe a challenge has to remain constant for a craftsman or a business. We believe there is a solution, whether that is a technique, a tool, or a machine. We then design, engineer, and build the solution from start to finish. We are in business in providing efficiency, reliability, and ease to all the craftsman and tradesman in the world.
What separates us is our ability to stay grounded. We don’t put ourselves above our competition because we know everything can be improved. An invention or improvement is always right around the corner and if we lose focus on that fact we know we will get left behind. There is no best way, but there always is a better way.
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About Rob
I started learning about the trades in early high school and soon learned that I loved to work with my hands. I gravitated more so to woodworking because my Dad was a jack of all trades. He built my family’s house and would work on the house during my childhood. After high school, I got a job as an apprentice at a custom stair company. Then I did work as a cabinet maker for a commercial cabinet company. Then I got into the exhibit/tradeshow business as a carpenter. Starting out as the new guy at each company I worked for I was always told I was too slow, that I needed to work faster. What I didn’t realize is that the people telling me these things had 20 years of experience building things the one way, they were proficient at it, and I did not want to wait 20 years just so I could tell the next guy he was too slow. I questioned the techniques they taught me and questioned the techniques I learned myself even more. I could not stop obsessing over the question “Is there a better way of doing this?” I would think about it at work and at home. When I was put in management positions I was constantly modifying and improving the ways my workers used their machines and tools. What put that passion inside me is in part because I did not want the new guy to be at odds with everyone else, and I could not accept that there was only one way to do something and that’s it. Once I got into exhibit/trade shows I realized my hobbies could be completely intertwined with my profession and I started gravitating towards metal fabrication because that’s what I was doing at home for my own projects. After 30 years spent working as a craftsman, I realized that maybe my best suit would be to start my own company. That company grew into a metal fabrication shop doing custom jobs for 10 years and now we are evolving into manufacturing our own product line. More or less the product line is what we have developed to use in our shop over those 10 years. |