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The Team

Bill

Bill Vollriede

Principal

Bill was raised in the building trades industry. He grew up learning about design, architecture, carpentry, and metalworking. He honed his skills at a young age by building bicycles and race cars and soon graduated to motorcycles and high-precision machine work. Bill's real world experience, coupled with his education in Industrial Arts means there is no project he can't handle. Bill thrives on mastering a challenge and creating singular works of functional art. (Just don't ask him to sit for a photo.)

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Lauren Armstrong

 

​Lauren is a professional Interior Designer. She specializes in design graphics, environmental sustainability, and wrangling industrial creative-types.

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Check out our partner company, Vellum & Ink Studio, to see how Lauren can help you with your design and drafting projects.

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Nick Armstrong

Nick is a skilled welder with a lifetime of experience in all things mechanical. Outside of the shop, you'll likely find him fixing something for friends and family or letting loose on the dance floor.

Metal Fabricator

Ferrous Blueller

Ferrous is a Bloomington-Normal Native. Much like Bill, he has grown up in the design and fabricating industry. When he isn't learning how to operate heavy machinery, Ferrous enjoys napping on the job and eating his coworkers' lunches.

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Patina

Mousekeeping

Patina is the newest addition to the Redspade family. She is cute as a button, but don't let that face fool you! She is hungry as a wolf, fast as a whip, and she will run off with all of your french fries in a single swipe of her tiny paw. Though she be but little she is fierce.

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Nick

Nick Armstrong

Fabrication Artist

Nick is a skilled fabricator with a lifetime of experience in all things mechanical. Outside of the studio, you'll likely find him fixing something for friends and family or letting loose on the dance floor.

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