Making Mom's Bed
A little about me.....and Rustic Woodworking
Many years of slicing and dicing wood and log slices.
I started Rustic Woodworking back in 2005. It's hard to believe how fast time flies.
Through it all, while driving a semi truck on "the side" to pay bills, I made it work, and keep things going.
In the early years of the "rustic wedding" fad, I was one of the first companies that provided wood slices. I adapted my shop, and tried my best to have logs dried and available on a scheduled basis, limited only by time and space. I rarely took custom orders, as I could only cut what I had available anyway. However, I always made sure that I had some 4" birch available each year. One of my favorite customers was the organizer for the Boston Marathon. She would always order 450 birch slices to have engraved as trophy's for the runners. I haven't heard from her since the bombing, THE TERRORISTS ATTACK in 2013.
Since then, there have been many, many people selling wood slices who can't even tell you what kind of wood it is that they're selling. I have received calls from people wanting me to "fix" the mold issue with the slices they bought from somebody else, or to "match" what they received from somebody else because the wood cracked or they needed more that the original seller could not provide. That seller, like many others, had a tree fall down in their yard, sawed it up, uneven, unlevel, and pawned it off on unsuspecting customers. There are "sellers" that sell to bigger craft stores. Nobody, including the craft store, has a clue on what they're selling, the dimensions they list are typically way under actual diameter or thickness, and it must be fun for them to pack an order.
I always took pride in the wood I sold, my honesty about it's condition and measurements, and even though it meant losing an order, I refused to send out wood that wasn't dry enough to be shipped.
I think the worst thing I have seen yet, just recently, walking through WalMart, is that they are selling wood slices from China. People are buying it.
That's when I decided to update this "About" page. Today is 12-9-2021.
Since I have a fabulous shop, with a lot of really cool machines, I am planning on breaking out a whole new line of products only meant for the "rustic" type people, who want to buy AMERICAN. Check back in a little while to see what I'm going. You will get a lot of new ideas.
I also sell the E-Z Log Tenon Cutters, and have been for almost 15 years. It is a wonderful tool that adjusts to cut 1" up to 3" diameter tenons at the ends of branches. I keep plenty in stock, along with spare cutting blades, and parts in case you lose or break something. I only ship to USA addresses.
Many years of slicing and dicing wood and log slices.
I started Rustic Woodworking back in 2005. It's hard to believe how fast time flies.
Through it all, while driving a semi truck on "the side" to pay bills, I made it work, and keep things going.
In the early years of the "rustic wedding" fad, I was one of the first companies that provided wood slices. I adapted my shop, and tried my best to have logs dried and available on a scheduled basis, limited only by time and space. I rarely took custom orders, as I could only cut what I had available anyway. However, I always made sure that I had some 4" birch available each year. One of my favorite customers was the organizer for the Boston Marathon. She would always order 450 birch slices to have engraved as trophy's for the runners. I haven't heard from her since the bombing, THE TERRORISTS ATTACK in 2013.
Since then, there have been many, many people selling wood slices who can't even tell you what kind of wood it is that they're selling. I have received calls from people wanting me to "fix" the mold issue with the slices they bought from somebody else, or to "match" what they received from somebody else because the wood cracked or they needed more that the original seller could not provide. That seller, like many others, had a tree fall down in their yard, sawed it up, uneven, unlevel, and pawned it off on unsuspecting customers. There are "sellers" that sell to bigger craft stores. Nobody, including the craft store, has a clue on what they're selling, the dimensions they list are typically way under actual diameter or thickness, and it must be fun for them to pack an order.
I always took pride in the wood I sold, my honesty about it's condition and measurements, and even though it meant losing an order, I refused to send out wood that wasn't dry enough to be shipped.
I think the worst thing I have seen yet, just recently, walking through WalMart, is that they are selling wood slices from China. People are buying it.
That's when I decided to update this "About" page. Today is 12-9-2021.
Since I have a fabulous shop, with a lot of really cool machines, I am planning on breaking out a whole new line of products only meant for the "rustic" type people, who want to buy AMERICAN. Check back in a little while to see what I'm going. You will get a lot of new ideas.
I also sell the E-Z Log Tenon Cutters, and have been for almost 15 years. It is a wonderful tool that adjusts to cut 1" up to 3" diameter tenons at the ends of branches. I keep plenty in stock, along with spare cutting blades, and parts in case you lose or break something. I only ship to USA addresses.
NEVER FORGET!
