Work Proven is a small, family-owned business proudly building nail strippers and monitoring tools in Bozeman, Montana.
Co-owner and shop manager Amy Vowell has been a shop rat since running her first piece-work job at the age of 8, directing her twin sister Sarah. Her youth was spent helping her dad in his gun and machine shops. She left the shop for a few years to get a degree in English Literature, work for the Smithsonian, travel Central America, and work as a nanny in London. She is also an accomplished commercial baker. As Amy says, "I am most happy when I am making something." So she keeps coming back to working in the shop. With a lifetime around machines and a keen eye for detail and proportion, Amy has a hand in every part that leaves the shop.
Machinist Emeritis/Grumpy Old Tool Guy: Pat Vowell. Since receiving his first metal lathe at the age of 11, Pat has been turning raw metal into beautiful machines and guns for over 50 years. An accomplished gunsmith and cannon builder, Pat is the only one of us with a "real job," working as an experimental machinist for Mechanical Engineers. Pat's specialty is reviving old machines into better-than-new condition and making good ideas into tangible metal tools.
Co-owner Jack Alexander started his first roofing company at 17-years-old after hanging out in his grandfather's gun shop and his dad's physics lab. A professional in the field of range management, Jack started building monitoring tools for use by his clients, his crews, and himself. You can learn more about Jack's other business at www.countgrass.com
Shop Super Hero: Owen. Our resident southpaw is the only one of our team with an office. Owen is a 5-year old super hero. You may have seen him in the DVD extras of the movie The Incredibles, where his aunt Sarah Vowell (voice of Violet) featured him in his bathing goggles. Owen loves the shop and specializes in "pokey" things and garbage patrol. There are none better than this little guy.
About the time the monitoring tools building outgrew Amy's little shop and threatened to take over her house, Mrs. Shirley Gregg talked to Jack about taking over the roofing nail stripper business she was running after her husband, Buck Gregg, passed away. Jack had been working with Buck on manufacture of HiVis Fence stays at the time of his death. After working with Mrs. Gregg for a while, Amy and Jack purchased the nail stripper business and moved it from Elkton, Oregon, to Amy's hometown of Bozeman, Montana.
Now we build nail strippers in Montana and are working to spread the word about this time-proven yet innovative tool.
Co-owner and shop manager Amy Vowell has been a shop rat since running her first piece-work job at the age of 8, directing her twin sister Sarah. Her youth was spent helping her dad in his gun and machine shops. She left the shop for a few years to get a degree in English Literature, work for the Smithsonian, travel Central America, and work as a nanny in London. She is also an accomplished commercial baker. As Amy says, "I am most happy when I am making something." So she keeps coming back to working in the shop. With a lifetime around machines and a keen eye for detail and proportion, Amy has a hand in every part that leaves the shop.
Machinist Emeritis/Grumpy Old Tool Guy: Pat Vowell. Since receiving his first metal lathe at the age of 11, Pat has been turning raw metal into beautiful machines and guns for over 50 years. An accomplished gunsmith and cannon builder, Pat is the only one of us with a "real job," working as an experimental machinist for Mechanical Engineers. Pat's specialty is reviving old machines into better-than-new condition and making good ideas into tangible metal tools.
Co-owner Jack Alexander started his first roofing company at 17-years-old after hanging out in his grandfather's gun shop and his dad's physics lab. A professional in the field of range management, Jack started building monitoring tools for use by his clients, his crews, and himself. You can learn more about Jack's other business at www.countgrass.com
Shop Super Hero: Owen. Our resident southpaw is the only one of our team with an office. Owen is a 5-year old super hero. You may have seen him in the DVD extras of the movie The Incredibles, where his aunt Sarah Vowell (voice of Violet) featured him in his bathing goggles. Owen loves the shop and specializes in "pokey" things and garbage patrol. There are none better than this little guy.
About the time the monitoring tools building outgrew Amy's little shop and threatened to take over her house, Mrs. Shirley Gregg talked to Jack about taking over the roofing nail stripper business she was running after her husband, Buck Gregg, passed away. Jack had been working with Buck on manufacture of HiVis Fence stays at the time of his death. After working with Mrs. Gregg for a while, Amy and Jack purchased the nail stripper business and moved it from Elkton, Oregon, to Amy's hometown of Bozeman, Montana.
Now we build nail strippers in Montana and are working to spread the word about this time-proven yet innovative tool.
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Work Proven
Work Proven
Work Proven - 406 586 4727
5393 Hamm Rd
Belgrade Mt 59714
5393 Hamm Rd
Belgrade Mt 59714
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