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Support C&K Wood Products
By Robert Satiacum
C&K Wood Products
15-Evergreen Lane
Montesano, WA 98563
360.249.5964
ckwoodproducts@yahoo.com
Introducing C&K Wood Products, and my dear friends and owners, Carl Johnson and his wife Kay. Located in Brady, a small hamlet just outside Montesano, WA, the best kept secret of “Coast Salish Gold“, Cedar.
 It was that distinctive scent that caught my attention on the canoe journey in Lummi. At that time, he had on display, many beautiful works of art made out of both yellow, and red cedar.
I went to visit Carl at his home and work shop to check out the operation and purchase some items I needed for an upcoming ceremony. I was met with humble hospitality, kindness and a great cup of coffee! Carl took me on a tour of the work shop, stock shop and gift shop. I was in awe of the potential for my native relatives to benefit from the quality and quantity of the wood and his inventory.
Carl expressed he was interested in creating a win-win relationship with the tribes, and their carvers of Western Washington. I shared with him idea’s and what it is that appeals to Natives. Together, we created different types of feather boxes, Native American Church boxes, and fan boxes. He had in stock already, round top cedar chest, large and small canoe paddle blanks, mask blanks, and carving rounds.
In the past, Carl and Kay have set up at local pow wow’s and canoe journey’s. Client’s include carvers, Dale Clark of Squaxin Island, Don Jones, Chehalis, and Al Church, Tulalip. Tribes that have also benefited include, Puyallup, Muckleshoot, Tulalip, Squaxin Island, Oakville/Chehalis, Makah, Lower Elwa, also including clients from Oregon, as well as Canada.
“Canoe Journey’s 20th Anniversary” at Suquamish is quickly coming upon us, and would also like to share that C&K Wood Products also has in stock, canoe paddle blanks, 3,4,5,6 inch cedar paddles for vest and dress, even fish sticks for cooking salmon the traditional way! If you can dream it, Carl can make it! If he doesn’t have it, he can get it!
When I last visited him, he showed me his new “drying room”, actually building, with thousands of board feet of Yellow and Red Cedar drying as well as some Yew wood.
I welcome Carl and Kay to our website and pray for a successful future for both them and my Native American relations.
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