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Handmade woodcraft from Northern Indiana
Handmade Wooden Flags and Custom Gifts in Northern Indiana.
Papa's Woodworking makes American flags, team coasters, signs, games, and gifts with a warm handmade finish. Find Tommy Sarber at Northern Indiana craft shows, or reach out with a custom idea.
Award-winning work
Recognized at the Elkhart County Fair for handmade craftsmanship.
Built by hand
Flags, coasters, signs, games, and gifts with real wood character.
Custom friendly
Bring an idea, team, name, size, or finish and Tommy can talk it through.
Samples of his work
Customer favorites from Papa's booth and workshop.
Tommy is best known for wooden American flags of all sizes and round coasters featuring high school, college, and professional sports teams. His table also fills up with signs, games, and giftable pieces made for porches, family rooms, offices, and fans.
American Flags
Signature wooden flags in porch, wall, and statement-piece sizes.
Commemorative Signs
Patriotic pieces for holidays, anniversaries, fairs, and family spaces.
Team and School Signs
Local school, college, and pro-team designs for fans and gift buyers.
Team Coasters
Popular round wooden coaster sets for sports fans, graduates, and offices.
Tabletop Games
Small handmade games that make easy gifts and good coffee-table pieces.
Craft shows and festivals
Look for the red table and rows of wooden flags.
At a Northern Indiana craft show, Papa's Woodworking is the kind of booth people slow down for: rows of handmade flags, stacks of team coasters, small games, carved signs, and gift pieces spread across the table.
Tommy's work has won awards at the Elkhart County Fair, and his booth has become familiar to locals across the area. Many customers buy something ready-made, while others start a custom order after seeing a finish, size, or team design in person.
Meet Papa
Tommy Sarber is the hands behind Papa's Woodworking.
Tommy Sarber is retired from secular work and still pastors a small church. He is also a husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, which is where the name Papa's Woodworking comes from.
Woodworking began as a retirement hobby, then grew into a craft-show table full of flags, coasters, signs, games, and custom pieces. Tommy keeps the work plainspoken and personal: good wood, careful finishing, and pieces made for real homes, teams, families, and gifts.
Custom orders
Have an idea? Tommy can help shape it.
Custom orders do not need to start with a perfect plan. Tell Tommy what you have in mind, what caught your eye at a show, or who the piece is for, and he can help sort out the size, finish, colors, and details.