Dad started Durham Precision in 1971 with a table saw and a radial arm saw, building kitchen cabinets for local residents who helped him build the business with word-of-mouth advertising. Dad soon had to expand the business to meet demand and he began hiring people from the local community and training them to the exacting precision and old-world standards he’d learned in his native Holland. I started learning those standards at the age of eight and dreamed of carrying on my father’s traditions of craftsmanship.