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My name is Tom Frink and I am a Colorado resident. My son is Shawn Frink, also of Colorado, and we as a team provide rough cut colored lumber. These trees are colored from the base of the tree to the tips of the leaves or needles. In 1962, my father and I actually came up with the idea of coloring trees for our pine jewelry business. Knowing that we wanted the branches of the trees to be colored to use the wood for our businesss we knew that we would have to color the whole tree. We began experimenting with many different trees to get the results we wanted. Two years and over a thousand experiments later, we achieved our goal of dyeing the trees in full with the color of choice. Our first big aspen grove was colored in 1964. We chose to use trees the government or landowners needed to be thinned, or trees that were to be cut down for firewood. Over the past 42 years we have successfully colored over 35 different varieties of trees making us the only people in the world (that we know of) to add color to living trees.

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Our process is very beneficial due to the fact that the whole tree can be used: the trunk for large dimensional lumber, the limbs for craft supplies such as the making of pens, the needles woven into colorful baskets, and the leaves used as interesting wall hangings. These are just a few examples. Only one can imagine the countless uses for all the parts of the tree.

Once this process of coloring, cutting, and drying is finished, the possible use for the wood is endless: Furniture Cabinets Paneling Railing Veneers Musical Instruments Picture Frames Woodturnings And the list goes on.............