It has been a while since I posted. No real good reason, I guess I just needed a break there are now 1,178 published posts on a blog begun January 2011. Over the course of all those months and years many things have changed but one thing has remained constant. Wood, I love the smell of it, the feel of it and the nearly endless number of possibilities for creation that wood presents.
The other day while I was cleaning up stray tools in my shop I picked up a piece of wood that had been part of a shipping pallet. The wood was rough sawn and had been slammed together with big nails to make a skid. I had a piece about the size of a hard cover novel that was laying under the work bench and when I picked it up I meant to throw it in the burn pile. Something stopped me, the piece of wood was too heavy for its size to be some kind of scrap softwood.
The bit of wood turned out to be Oak. I'm guessing the tree was cut down in the United States somewhere and turned into a skid. Sad, as it was a really nice bit of wood.
