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At 14, Izzy became a professional woodworker, he started off with just a hammer, handsaw, and a drill; and started making arbors out of soft maple limbs which he cut out of the woods; he also started making little benches. He started selling his products, and a year into professional woodworking, he started earning more than his mother, who at that time was working as a prison guard.
Izzy quit high school and his babysitting job which he hated, to build log homes for someone in Greenville, Michigan; he built log homes for a couple of years.
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Then, he returned to school, and studied for a General Educational Diploma, and also did a few courses. Initially, Izzy was producing fine furniture; while building log homes, he stumbled upon rustic furniture , particularly, Adirondack style furniture. Thanks to this, Izzy fell in love with woodworking, and started designing and producing a lot of rustic furniture.
As Izzy is a history buff, he has been inspired by the work of George Nakashima, an American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker born on 24 May His other inspirations are Sam Maloof, a famous chair maker, and rustic artists, Barney Bellinger, and Randy Holden; in the mechanical world, he is influenced by Whitworth.
At that time, Izzy got married, and decided to shift his focus to the mass production of furniture. Thanks to his proficiency in designing, he showcased his designs to a few businesses, and as the businesses got interested in his designs, his business instantly became successful.
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By , Izzy became very skilled at designing and building equipment, and realised that he liked building equipment more than building the furniture; so, he quit his business in , and started doing process and production consulting for a variety of furniture manufacturers. On 11 May , Izzy started his eponymous YouTube channel to showcase the furniture that he was designing for furniture companies; later, he took down these videos, and moved to Charleston, South Carolina.
At that time, as he had a lot of free time, he started watching a lot of YouTube videos, and observed the lack of DIY videos on woodworking equipment; as he had years of experience with woodworking equipment, he started publishing interesting DIY videos, and this helped in the success of his channel. He also occasionally does video editing and voice over work for some companies and collects royalties on his furniture designs.
In February , he retired by shutting down the production side of his business to focus on producing videos, and educational undertakings. Izzy suffered a car accident, his six vertebrae got crushed, and he developed complications from it.