We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Neal White. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Neal below.

Alright, Neal thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Being a business owner can be really hard sometimes. It’s rewarding, but most business owners we’ve spoken sometimes think about what it would have been like to have had a regular job instead. Have you ever wondered that yourself? Maybe you can talk to us about a time when you felt this way?

Absolutely! I couldn’t see myself doing anything else. Some days when it’s hot, hectic and I keep seeing problems instead of solutions I think how nice it might be to be at a desk in a nice office with AC but I usually take a step back and realize how much happier I am doing this. Some people don’t have the opportunity to start their own business wether it be from having kids and needing a steady paycheck with health insurance or maybe not having the money saved up to go out on their own but I was lucky enough to have had some close friends teach me how printing works at a young age and was able to slowly work my way into where I am now.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I have been playing in bands since I was 10 years old. Spending $200 on shirts might have well been $2 million dollars to kids in middle and high school where we lived. There were no shops in out area and the internet wasn’t as available as it is now. I had a good friend that I played in a band with show me how to screen print after he took a class in college. It took me a while to grasp the idea of lining up multi color prints but once I got a job at an actual print shop everything started to make more sense. Until then I ruined my parents basement making a lot of really bad looking shirts and left. stains on the floor that are probably still there.

While I was working at the print shop I got an offer to do a full North American tour with a friends band from Sweden. I told the shop I was leaving for about 2 months but once I got home my position had been filled. Before I left I had been taking my own print jobs after hours, The owner of the shop and I came to an agreement for me to start my own company and we would share the shop between our two companies.

Slowly since then Tomahawk has become a full scale print shop that can handle 20 to over a million shirts. We do direct to garment printing as well as embroidery. We can also handle any promotional item like flags, hats, koozies, stickers, and pretty much anything else you can imagine.

I know how expensive it can be for a new band, excited for their first show, to get shirts printed so we pride ourselves in working with a quick turn around for smaller quantities with the same care we give when we work with billion dollar companies.

Where do you think you get most of your clients from?

Most of the business we get has been from word of mouth and from references from our friends. Our first order was from a a friend met from playing in bands and I know we wouldn’t still be here if it wasn’t from the continued support from our close friends. Theres no way I can say thank you enough for the undying support we continue to get.

Do you stay in contact with your clients?

Definitely. We print for people all around the world and regularly talk with most of our clients since a lot of them are repeat customers and there’s quite are few that order every month.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.tomahawkprints.com
• Instagram: @tomahawkprints
• Facebook: Facebook.com/tomahawkprints

Image Credits
Photographs by Heather Vaught and Kate Lamb