doh! I found the solution on google by searching 301 redirect. Thank you anyways though drbyte! Shouldn't this help the search engines as well?

I made mine say this

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^hardwoodcanes.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.hardwoodcanes.com/$1 [r=301,nc]