Tognar was established in 1986 by Jack Moore (originally named The Third Hand, selling Bicycle repair tools).
The ski aspect of the business was prompted by Jack's acquaintence with two people, Doug Couture and Blake Lewis. At that time, Blake had earned acclaim as the ski tech for Bill Johnson, a member of the US Ski team who won the Olympic mens downhill in Sarajevo 1984. As a result, Blake and Doug were on a national tour teaching ski tuning clinics, and wanted to sell ski tools during the clinics, so they asked Jack if he could provide the tools. He said yes, but also offered a much larger selection of tools in a new catalog, still under "The Third Hand" name. Jack sold the bike tool business to Jeff and Jeannie Gilmore, who have since renamed it Loose Screws.
Jack's son Andy, an avid snowboarder, came up with the creative suggestion of "tognar" a commonly used contraction of the term totally gnarly.
In 2004 Scott Churchill and Cat Gould began managing for Jack and the fit was perfect. Jack was ready to move onto greater adventures, so he sold the business to them in 2007.
Scott and Cat now run the business single-handedly from a small warehouse in Southern Oregon, nice and close to three beautiful mountain ski areas Mt.Ashland, Mt Shasta and Mt Bachelor.
Scott spent his formative years in Mt Shasta, Tahoe and Australia as a vagabond ski tech. Working in various ski shops, including The Fifth Season in Mt. Shasta, Northsport at Northstar at Tahoe and Blue Cow in Australia.
Cat moved from Australia to the USA in 1989 and has enjoyed the variety of four seasons (especially the white one) ever since.
We appreciate all the friendly and faithful customers we've had over the years that has made tognar.com the number one one-stop shop for ski and snowbard tuners around the world.
Thanks!
Cat and Scott Churchill
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