I (William A. LaRue) started working with wood in 1982 at age 8, I started out making simple cutting boards with handles from Hard Maple and selling them to family friends and people at my church. By the age of 10 I was making solid wood models of the Space Shuttle with a launch tower and Tractor Trailer Truck with details of the clearance lights, exhaust stacks, air horns, air cleaners, dual wheels, working landing gears on the trailer and even a working tail gate on the trailer. From there I went on to designing wall mounted candelabras, picture frames, mirrors, wooden baby rattles, etc.

Then in 1992 I entered one of my wood lathe turned baby rattles as my 4-H wood project and a good friend of mine, Heather Baker, entered an Adirondack chair as her 4-H wood project. Needless to say her project went on to the New York State Fair judging and mine didn't, at this point I decided that this would never happen again! In the following months I designed a coffee table that I was going to build for my 1993 4-H wood project. This project really got me interested in continuing my quest to make this a full time thing that I loved to do.

In 1996, at age 20, I contracted my first large project, it was a large Red Oak entertainment center to fit into a curtain area in their house. This entertainment center was built as three separate sections, the end sections have built-in lighted display cases, one is for a porcelain fire house collection, the other is for model NASCAR collection. In the center section I incorporated a center support that transfers the weight of the TV right to the floor eliminating the shelves from bowing from the weight.

Then in 1999, I designed and built a bed that I displayed at the 2000 Northeast Woodworkers Showcase held in Saratoga Springs, NY. This bed had enough interest that I decided to continue to grow this business and eventually make it my full time job. This bed warranted the expansion of my business into the new wood shop that I am currently working out of.

Then in 1996, I expended my business to also include a refinishing/restoration part to LaRue Woodworking. And the latest expansion was in 2010, when I bought/built my first CNC router, now I offer a verity of signs and 3-D carvings to accent my projects.