Most folks define spring as a date on the calendar or some other thing like that. I am not one of them. I define spring by the weather, because for me, spring means I have to start shifting gears to do other things, and FAST. Just as Fall means winter preparation, spring means getting a …
I am barely 2 years in this business thing and it has already been quite a trip. I can say I am not standing in the position I thought I would be in right now., that is for certain. With a recent (minor) illness that keep me both indoors and on light work for the …
. . . I hear this question in a round-about way many many times. Frankly few people are willing to say it out loud because they have little idea what to do with their land, after all, they own it and can do what they want, and it’s ‘just woods’ right? Of course they can, …
I have mentioned somewhere else in these pages that one of my business goals is making other people happy. This isn’t just fluff, it is a concrete goal for me because I derive a lot of joy in creating a smile. It’s as valuable as cash even if I can’t buy beer with it. 🙂 …
Every once in a while I work on something that turns out special for one reason or another. Either is it something a client requests that pushes my skills or abilities, or it is something I just try and it turns out well. Always, these are true ‘one of a kind’ pieces, mostly because I …
NEW Offering! Mushroom Bolts! (logs)I am always looking for new ways to utilize what we get from the woods, especially the things that are left to rot. Now to be sure, a certain amount of rotting material is necessary for a healthy woodlot, this is how nutrients are returned to the soil and the growth …
Well the weather … is changing. We got a foot and a half of snow a couple of days ago and that just added to the work load around here. One might think “Hey, you have that nice, big, warm, dry shop, why not just hole up and work in there?’ and although that is …
I get asked this question all the time. Most folks have never seen a sawmill run, let alone understood a little about what goes into making lumber. I am no expert, but I get better with every log. For a while I have been meaning to do a little pictorial piece here that I can …
I often forget that we all don’t have the same understanding of things. Wood is something I am constantly learning more about as I work with it, research things I don’t understand, and try to make things. Wood is always changing, even long after it is dead, milled, planed, and built into furniture or structures, …
Well, I have never been accused of being overly smart and in my life I have made some mistakes and picked up some scars here and there as a result, some from bad decisions and some from good ones that just got a little ‘dicey’ along the way. As they say, not all scars show …