Help me choose a name for my business.

[Dan Mages]

Bill Keehn Precision Sawdust Company...

I don't know. It has a great ring to it.

Dan

[Bill Keehn]

That's my automatic response when people ask what I make.... "Sawdust.. and some other stuff".

[Richard M. Wolfe]

Definitely not a shaprening service, Bill. We have a Woodmizer and are starting work on a kiln. And shaprening would mean working with metal . I don't think it was mentioned but a possibility could be Keehn's Edge Woodworks, and I do like The Keehn Edge Woodworks.

[Bill Keehn]

Definitely not a shaprening service, Bill. We have a Woodmizer and are starting work on a kiln. And shaprening would mean working with metal . I don't think it was mentioned but a possibility could be Keehn's Edge Woodworks, and I do like The Keehn Edge Woodworks.

Cooool. I've been daydreaming about an LT50 and my own kiln someday. I'll paint the sawmill green and call my business Keehn's Green Machine. Seriously

[Bill Keehn]

And shaprening would mean working with metal .

Wait a second. Of course you are working with metal. How else you gonna cut wood.. teeth?

[Stephen Tashiro]

Imagine this nightmare. You open your business with your chosen name. Then competitors start the following businesses:

Wood-Keene Edge Works LLC
Wood Edge Keen-Works INC
Work Wood Keen Edge
Woodwork Edge Keen
and
Work Edge Wood Keen

[Karl Brogger]

Two rules that I set when choosing a name. I didn't want my name in it. If I ever sell off the shop, I don't want my name attached to it forever. Your selling blue sky, not your identity. Although yours does have some whit to it.

Never include custom in a name, its like saying soft pudding. Its just assumed when working out a phone booth sized space. Its pretty obvious you aren't mass producing box cabinets and shipping them across North America.

Most won't be able to pronounce my companies name. Sogn Cabinet Co.
I live in an area known as Sogn Valley, my shop is currently located on Sogn Valley Trail. Pronounced sew-gan. Sogn, as in "so" what.



I have to ask, what in the name of all that is holy do you think you are doing starting a shop when the trades are so far in the crapper?

[Jim Kountz]

The first one works for me!!

[Mat Ashton]

Keen edge woodworks is better for remembering, emails and web searches as that's how it's spelt - it's intuitive. Also much much easier for people to pass on the name and email address when it's easy to remember. I find oddly spelt or pronounced names to be a hinderance when it comes to trying to remember businesses I want to continue using in the future and often end up going with someone else when it's hard to find them relatively quickly.

[Larry Edgerton]

Most won't be able to pronounce my companies name. Sogn Cabinet Co.
I live in an area known as Sogn Valley, my shop is currently located on Sogn Valley Trail. Pronounced sew-gan. Sogn, as in "so" what.

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And I will add that most people are basically illiterate, so don't use a word that a second grader can not understand. The name of my company is "Crooked Tree Joinery"

I assumed most people knew what "Joinery" means. I assumed incorrectly.

[Eric Larsen]

Keehn Edge Design
Custom Wood Furniture
Hand Crafted Tools
We Also Walk Dogs

A little bit of whimsy in your name is a good thing, I think. There was a candy maker in my hometown that proudly proclaims "We make the world's best candy, since 2000 & 1/2."

Every year, it becomes a little less funny and a little more respectable.

[Burt Alcantara]

Keehn Kustom

[Belinda Barfield]

Bill,

It seems you've made up your mind but I would like to give you a little different view of using Keehn (I vote for number 1 by the way). Others have opined that this might be confusing, or difficult to remember, or misspelled in a search query. I think on a sign it will catch the eye because the viewer will pick up on the additional letter in what the are reading as "Keen" and will do a double take. It also implies, to me, that you have a sense of humor, and that you are intelligent, two traits I look for when I am doing business with someone. That said, I'm not in the market for custom furniture right now so it doesn't really matter what I think.

[Bill Keehn]

Thanks Belinda.

Yeah, I've pretty much decided. My wife likes "Keehn Edge Woodworks" too. I can tell she's excited, since she has been talking about getting some shirts made .

I've got to move fairly quickly on the incorporation, since I'm about to sign a lease after the building permit for the buildout plan is finalized, which should happen by the end of next week. It's poor form to sign as the president of a company that doesn't exist yet

[jim carter]

make it something that people will remember. i went with PERCH ON THIS for my pet bird products[ perches, swings , ladders etc...].