Who Are We?
Windline Pacific’s Woodworks is a family owned and operated business with Dave Anderson at the helm. We specialize in a variety of unique handmade wooden gift items that are perfect for every gift giving occasion; weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, house warming, thank yous, corporate promotional gifts, and even no-special-occasion-at-all presents!
Out of Windline Pacific’s shop, on the Windward Hamakua Coast of the Island of Hawaii, come an amazing range of the highest quality wood gifts in Hawaiian Koa, other native woods, and exotic imported hardwoods. We make one of a kind laminated cutting boards, and lazy susans both of which make great wedding, anniversary or house warming gifts. If games are your thing, we have beautiful chess and checker boards, as well as a Hawaiian board game called Konane. For a more personal gift, check out our whale tail hairsticks or gorgeous heirloom hairbrushes. In celebration of surfing we offer a desktop or wall mount long board replica, detailed out with stringers of maple and complete with skegs. Is there a special someone that already has EVERYTHING? We have the gift for them- take a look at our absolutely unique Hardwood Hats!
When the kids began skateboarding, Dave partnered with legendary local surfboard shaper, Dean Edwards, and together they started Veteran Skateboards. Initially it was something cool to do with the kids, but even with son Winter now off at college, the skates roll on and Veteran Skates has become (in)famous for its custom skate work.
The half models, so elegantly authentic, draw on Dave’s experience as a shipwright and his maritime background. His original half models can be found in some of the finest nautical collections in the world.
Windline Pacific Woodworks is an extension of David Anderson’s commitment to keeping his hands busy and his creative energies productive. Dave was born in New England in 1950. At age seventeen he left the northeast to travel the world. He settled in Puget Sound at twenty, where he apprenticed to the well known boatbuilder, Cecil M. Lange. In 1972 he completed construcution of his own 36’ cutter Fianna.
During the 1970’s Dave and Fianna ranged up and down the west coast, from Glacier Bay to Acapulco. He worked his trade as a shipwright, but put in time as a commercial fisherman and a delivery Captain as well. His last job on the mainland before sailing to Hawaii in 1980 was redecking the 150’ steam yacht Medea in teak for the San Diego Maritime Museum, where he served as head shipwright.
We work in native Hawaiian woods, as well as in introduced and imported exotic woods. All of our pieces are made either wholly, or in combinations of the finest curly Koa, Ohia, Mango, and many other extraordinary exotic woods. All our work is produced in our shop on the Island of Hawaii. The koa lumber that we use comes from windfalls, trees that are already down. Dave has designed the products to be able to utilize smaller pieces of wood that normally would go to waste.
He enjoys surfing and derives inspiration for his art from the waves. He also plays guitar in a rock ‘n roll blues band by the name of Rock Bottom.
Dave and his wife, Sarah, have two remarkable children, a daughter and a son, who are both in college.