Corbin welcomes new business to its downtown area

The Local Laser Company, which is one of Corbin’s newest Main Street businesses, isn’t the place to go to get laser surgery on your eyes. It isn’t the place to go if you want to get hair lasered off your body.

The Local Laser Company on Main Street in Corbin recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony in conjunction with the Southern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce to celebrate its grand opening.

It is the place to go if you looking for a one-stop shop for promotional products and business gifts. With thousands of selections, it offers branded merchandise to fulfill all of your needs, according to the company’s website at www.thelocallasercompany.com.

Husband and wife Kenny and Gail Puckett are the owners and operators of the business with Gail serving as the branding strategist and Kenny serving as the creative director.

“We are embellishment specialists. We focus on helping get companies and individuals brand out on different products,” Gail said.

“We put anything on about anything,” Kenny added. “We can upscale to the largest company. We can downplay to just an individual, who needs their name engraved on something. Anything you can imagine I can get personalized to what you want.”

The Local Laser Company has only been in business for about three months, Kenny has been doing this kind of work for 35 years. He started when he was 18 years old.

Gail Puckett and her husband, Kenny Puckett, are the owners of downtown Corbin’s newest business, the Local Laser. Above, Heather Barrineau presents Puckett with a membership plaque on behalf of the Southern KY Chamber of Commerce.

He had a company in Lexington for 15 years before moving to Danville where he worked for about 18 years. He then moved to Russell Springs where he stayed briefly before his mother got ill. Then, Kenny and Gail decided to move to Corbin to be closer to her. Kenny’s family is originally from Williamsburg, and he spent most of his youth in this area.

Gail said that the company decided on the name because it is focusing on doing laser etching.

“It’s more than just a laser company. This is a name that we liked,” Kenny said.

The Local Laser Company can engrave on any number of surfaces, including wood, metal, acrylic, leather and flax leather, which is often used in patches.

The company offers different products.

Gail noted that the idea is to help get people and their messages out there.

“When it comes in branding and getting your promotion out there, sometimes it’s hard to know where to even start. We are hoping we can kind of bridge the gap on that by helping people get the products that they want and get their message out on a product and get it out to the public,” Gail said.

For instance, one client, which is a tire company, was looking for a unique way to market itself, but lots of places have tire gauges with their name imprinted on it.

Some of the items that The Local Laser Company can customize for a customer’s business.

The Local Laser Company was able to come up with a tire shaped measuring tape with the company name put on it that can be given away to customers.

“I use AI’s to the fullest extent on hunting down and finding the newest and most innovative. I look for what people respond to and this is what they want. It almost guarantees people are going to hang onto that item and it not end up in a trash pile,” Kenny said.

One thing that the company is focusing on is finding products that are eco-friendly and recycled, such as business cards printed on recycled aluminum.

“We want to provide our clients with something that they can’t get anywhere else,” Gail said.

Local Laser is also hoping to work with area artists, who might have a product that a local business could have branded with its logo to give or sell to customers.

Kenny added that he has spoken with the City of Corbin about possibly coming up with some merchandise, which could be engraved with the city logo or something along those lines, and be given out to visitors.