Jim Oberlander, co-owner of Twig Custom Builders, speaks in a YouTube video on April 19, 2018. (YouTube)
A digital fabrication shop north of Denver that built decorations for local restaurants and furniture parts for camper trailers, among other woodwork, has shut down and gone bankrupt.
Twig Custom Builders, which also went by Custom Cabinets by Twig, filed for Chapter 7 at the end of September. It has $4.3 million of debt, most of which is owed to its owners.
“Here at Twig, we specialize in solutions for alternative housing,” Jim Oberlander, one of the two 50/50 owners of the company, said in a 2018 video. “We do a lot of work with tiny homes, van conversions. We do teardrop trailers, camper trailers, things of that nature.”
Twig carved out a niche making ready-to-assemble cabinets, staircases and the like for those housing alternatives, saving van-life hobbyists and amateur builders some time.
“We’re a parts cutter. We make parts, ready-packed, for DIY builders,” Oberlander said in the video.
Twig’s social media pages show that it also made a metal decoration resembling a thrown fishing net that hangs from the ceiling of ChoLon’s downtown Denver restaurant.
“Literally, if we can draw it, we can cut it,” Oberlander said in 2018. “We had a very specific niche that we were intending to service and … we blew that niche wide open. We now have folks from a variety of different industries that are coming to us to cut their parts.”
Metalwork on the ceiling of ChoLon, 1555 Blake St. in Denver. (Facebook)
Oberlander, who is listed as Twig’s manager but now lives in Nebraska, did not answer interview requests. Neither did co-owner Philip Maynard, an Erie resident.
Oberlander, his wife, and Maynard hold $3.1 million of Twig’s debt. The U.S. Small Business Administration is owed $475,000, the Internal Revenue Service $100,000 and Twig’s former landlord at 6535 Franklin St. $236,000, according to bankruptcy filings.
Twig had gross revenue of $1 million in 2023 and $740,000 in 2024 but reports having no revenue in 2025 and the company has not paid wages since February. Twig’s only assets are $15,000 in equipment, meaning debt-holders will likely see little repayment.
Its bankruptcy lawyer is Andrew Johnson of Onsager Fletcher Johnson Palmer in Denver.
Jim Oberlander, co-owner of Twig Custom Builders, speaks in a YouTube video on April 19, 2018. (YouTube)
A digital fabrication shop north of Denver that built decorations for local restaurants and furniture parts for camper trailers, among other woodwork, has shut down and gone bankrupt.
Twig Custom Builders, which also went by Custom Cabinets by Twig, filed for Chapter 7 at the end of September. It has $4.3 million of debt, most of which is owed to its owners.
“Here at Twig, we specialize in solutions for alternative housing,” Jim Oberlander, one of the two 50/50 owners of the company, said in a 2018 video. “We do a lot of work with tiny homes, van conversions. We do teardrop trailers, camper trailers, things of that nature.”
Twig carved out a niche making ready-to-assemble cabinets, staircases and the like for those housing alternatives, saving van-life hobbyists and amateur builders some time.
“We’re a parts cutter. We make parts, ready-packed, for DIY builders,” Oberlander said in the video.
Twig’s social media pages show that it also made a metal decoration resembling a thrown fishing net that hangs from the ceiling of ChoLon’s downtown Denver restaurant.
“Literally, if we can draw it, we can cut it,” Oberlander said in 2018. “We had a very specific niche that we were intending to service and … we blew that niche wide open. We now have folks from a variety of different industries that are coming to us to cut their parts.”
Metalwork on the ceiling of ChoLon, 1555 Blake St. in Denver. (Facebook)
Oberlander, who is listed as Twig’s manager but now lives in Nebraska, did not answer interview requests. Neither did co-owner Philip Maynard, an Erie resident.
Oberlander, his wife, and Maynard hold $3.1 million of Twig’s debt. The U.S. Small Business Administration is owed $475,000, the Internal Revenue Service $100,000 and Twig’s former landlord at 6535 Franklin St. $236,000, according to bankruptcy filings.
Twig had gross revenue of $1 million in 2023 and $740,000 in 2024 but reports having no revenue in 2025 and the company has not paid wages since February. Twig’s only assets are $15,000 in equipment, meaning debt-holders will likely see little repayment.
Its bankruptcy lawyer is Andrew Johnson of Onsager Fletcher Johnson Palmer in Denver.
