The Story of our Matamata Based Laser Cutting Workshop
let me tell you who we aren't!
We AREN'T a big operation
We AREN'T an importer
We AREN'T fancy, or corporate, or savvy online Entrepeneur's.
We AREN'T drop shippers, YouTube celebrities or all that important.
WE ARE A KIWI FAMILY DOING LIFE
A small NZ Family owned business
Meet Tracy & Phill... Our Story
We are a FAMILY
(Husband & wife, 2 Teens & 2 dogs)
Meet Tracy & Phill. Our story started over 23 years ago—falling in love, getting married, and seeing where the road would take us. From teaching to engineering and a decade in the coffee industry, life eventually led us to open our Matamata based laser cutting workshop.
What started as making custom machine panels with a small laser grew into The Carpenter & Co. Now, we’re all in. This is our life, and how we feed our family.
We get to do life together while creating custom keepsakes in our Matamata based laser cutting workshop to help our clients celebrate theirs. Phill even helps others now, repairing machines and offering laser cutting training to fellow makers.
Life is messy, and sometimes we mess up. But when we do, we make it right. We don’t pretend to be the biggest, but we invest ourselves in the process to help you create a gift that is unique to you."
We put in many long hours over a number of years to develop our products and have not looked back.
We are ALL in...
this is our life, and how we feed our family.
We don't pretend to be the best or the biggest, but we invest ourselves in the process. We value the people we meet along the way and focus on doing all we can to help you create that special gift or item that is unique to you.
Spoiler alert
Sometimes we mess up, get it wrong even.
But when we do we make sure to put it right.
Just like any NZ Family owned business should.
Our Products
Being a NZ family owned business
Our Products a lovingly made with care and attention.
We offer everything from custom solid wood items, through to lasercut materials and printed items.
Our core point of difference is we do custom, personalised items with personalised service.
If you can't find exactly what you need on our site
(Customisation available on all our items)
Touch base and we can happily create something uniquely for you.