Chuck German
5th Generation Professional Woodworker
Over 200 years ago, the first generation of woodworkers settled in Brownsville, PA.
Our family consisted of fine craftsmen, and this is where our journey begins.
This is my story to share with you four generations later.
My name is Chuck German, the owner of East Coast Laser Engraving.
We welcome you to our company website.
Please take a moment to read this page and learn all about us, what we believe in,
our products, our woodworking experience,
and most importantly, the quality in every product we make.
John Browns Family Homestead
1870 to 1915
Our Niche is "Custom"
Our beliefs are excellent customer service, high-quality products,
and affordable prices, and most importantly, Customer-centered
Fully Customized Cutting Boards for Home and Business
We only make custom sizes made to order for our customers
giving them the exact sizes that fit their countertop space.
"It can't get any better than that."
Then, we add that special touch by custom laser engraving to personalize each board we make.
"We will custom-make any size hardwood board for our retail customers,
wholesale customers, restaurants, bakeries, and corporate gifts as well.
We look forward to being your supplier of custom wood products and hardwood cutting boards.
East Coast Laser Engraving
Abigail Hayde
Bazel Brown ( From Prince George Maryland) & Sarah Brown
Sarah J. German & John M. Brown Lanta C. Brown
(Parents of Lanta Brown, my Grandmother)
John M. Brown is the son of Basil Brown, founder of Brownsville, PA, Today!
The History of Our Families: The Browns and Germans
Over two hundred Years of History, "Our Family of Woodworking Experience"
This Is Our Timeline
The first record of our family dates back to 1775 with our two Browns: brothers Thomas and Bazil Brown.
Thomas Brown Sr. and Bazel Brown Sr., Master Woodworkers from Prince George's, Maryland, made the historic trip.
And settled along the Monongahela River in Western Pennsylvania, which was a wilderness at the time.
It all started in 1849. By 1898, at the age of forty-nine, my great, great-grandfather, John M. Brown, a Professional Builder
, furniture maker, and farmer, completed the Brown Homestead. In those days, the virgin forest near the homestead
It was full of Black Walnut, Black Cherry, and White Oak.
The family homestead is located in Dellroy, Ohio, shown in the pictures above in 1897, with my grandmother's cousins
and my grandmother's mother. The lady in the black dress is my grandma's mother,
and she gave birth to my grandma on February 23, 1898.
The barn is still standing today; the original home shown above has since burned down.
A brick home was built later in the years on the exact spot where the original house once stood.
The barn John built was a 3-story barn. The third floor was where he stored the straw,
The first floor, to the left of the picture, was used for hay and farm equipment.
To the right of the picture was the second floor, where he built all the family furniture in his woodshop.
Back then, it was awesome, according to my grandmother. The lower section on the first floor was where he kept all the cattle.
When John took his daughter into his woodshop, all she remembers is that it was large and had a multitude of woodworking tools.
The family home and barn were completed by John Brown, giving the Brown’s a homestead
in raising their family. The 12-room farm home was considered huge back in those days.
When my grandmother married her first husband, he was a woodworker as a hobby and a tool and die maker by trade in Toledo, Ohio.
Then my grandma had two sons -- one was to be a woodworker, that was my dad. Her second son became a U.S. Postal Worker.
I am now the fifth-generation woodworker and owner of the company
East Coast Laser Engraving Noble Nook LLC
I adopted my grandson, who is now becoming the next line of woodworkers, beginning.
The sixth generation will continue the family tradition.
Then, in 1967, my woodworking story began. So here we are, 53 years later at the
East Coast Laser Engraving, Noble Nook LLC, is carrying on a family tradition of more than 282 years of woodworking experience.
East Coast Laser Engraving was just an idea. It started in 2018 when my son Brett took
his first woodshop class in high school. He came home from school with
a hardwood cutting board he made in the shape of Michigan, made from walnut and hard maple.
To my surprise, the craftsmanship was beyond perfect.
Then one day Brett said to me, Dad, I want us to have a cutting board business in Orlando, Florida, complete with CNC wood engraving and custom laser engraving.
You are an excellent woodworker, Dad, and I'd love for us to start a company after I graduate from high school.
I said to my son Brett If you are serious, then let's do it. East Coast Laser Engraving was in the planning stages and will be sharing our expert designs for the next one hundred years, continuing the long family tradition.
Our journey together and putting together a fantastic team was the first step.
Now we have that team of the most highly professional people working at East Coast Laser Engraving, bringing
the finest wood products to market.
Chuck German
Owner and Manufacturing
Sales, Laser Engraving Design Specialist
CNC Wood Machining & Designs Services