Last weekend I traveled up to Connecticut for Fine Woodworking Live.  This was the second year of the conference and have to say it was even better than last year.  For any of you that have attended woodworking conferences like this you know that it is a mixture of great speakers, tool vendors, and getting […]

  Outside of my dad’s shop up in North Carolina is a couple of Locust boards around 8” wide, 3” thick, and probably 6’ long.  They are so weathered that it’s hard to tell what kind of wood is inside, but when sliced they have some of the most beautiful end grain imaginable. For years […]