Your work speaks for itself. If people can find it.
The best fab shop in the county still loses jobs to a worse shop with a better web presence — because the customer searching “aluminum boat repair” or “CNC laser cutting near me” hires whoever shows up. Your website’s job is to make sure that’s you.
The Problem
Everyone who’s worked with you knows you’re good. That’s the problem.
Your work comes from word of mouth — which means your growth is capped at the number of people who already know you.
Customers don’t know what to call what they need. They’re not searching “TIG welding” — they’re searching “fix aluminum boat” or “custom steel railing.” If your site doesn’t speak their language, you don’t exist.
Half the calls you get are for work you don’t want, because nothing online says what you actually do.
Your best advertising is sitting in your camera roll: finished jobs nobody outside the shop has ever seen.
The Solution
A website that shows the work and speaks the customer’s language.
I build fabrication shop websites with one clear goal: getting the right customers to submit qualified quote requests online—so you can spend less time answering calls and dealing with walk-ins, and more time running your shop.
Capability pages that match real searches
A page for each thing you want more of: custom welding, CNC laser cutting, boat repair, railings, repairs. That’s how you get found for the work you want, and stop fielding calls for the work you don’t.
A gallery that sells
Your finished jobs, organized and captioned, built to be shown off. This does more selling than any paragraph of text.
Quote requests with photos
Customers describe the job and attach pictures right in the form, so you can scope it before you ever pick up the phone.
Searchable inventory (if you sell material)
Customers browse your metal stock from their phone before they drive out.
Built mobile-first
Because your customer is standing next to a broken thing, or on a job site, holding a phone.
Live builds
Tinker With It — two sites, one business
Tinker With It runs both a metal & hardwoods supply operation and a welding & fabrication shop — so I built them a site for each side of the business.
The supply side (tinkerwithit.com): built mobile-first so customers can search the metal and hardwood inventory from their phone and know what’s in stock before they drive over.
The fab side (twishop.com): a newer operation that needed the word out — built clean and to the point around the work they want more of: custom welding, aluminum boat repair, and CNC laser cutting.
What’s Included
One price. One build. Built like you’d build it — no filler.
- Custom website (not a template) — capabilities, gallery, service area, about the shop
- Quote request form with photo upload, wired straight to your phone
- Google Business Profile setup and review-request flow
- Capability pages for the searches your customers actually type
- Fast load times and mobile-first layout
Builds start at $1199
Care plan from $47/mo — hosting, updates, changes, and a real person (me) when something breaks.
Why me
I worked in the trades before I wrote code.
I came out of skilled trades, so I know the difference between MIG and TIG, I know what a shop rate is, and I won’t waste your time explaining the internet to you. No agency, no account manager, no runaround — one guy in Wamego, Kansas who builds every site himself and answers his own phone.
Joe Plankinton · HoneyBadger-Designs · Wamego, Kansas
Joe Plankinton Jr. Owner of JP's Mobile Service, Inc. 1998-2014
( Yep, that is me working )