by hupka | Feb 4, 2020 | Bloodwood, Cherry, Cutting Boards, Face grain, Information, Maple, Purple Heart, Walnut
Building cutting boards is sort of like taking our woodshop back to its roots. When we first started out as a company we sold more cutting boards than anything else. Building new inventory is still one of those calming activities that we enjoy a few times a year....
by hupka | Nov 19, 2018 | Purple Heart, Woods
Usually when we order exotic lumber we simply say “We’d like x many board feet” and when it comes in we mill it as needed. Usually these boards are 5″-7″ wide. Usually. However we needed another 10 board feet of purple heart recently and...
by hupka | Aug 30, 2016 | Bloodwood, Cheese Board, Cutting Boards, End grain, Information, Purple Heart
Fresh batch of 16 more cutting boards, trivets and cheese boards under clamps and ready to be surfaced and shaped. We are incorporating more of the purple heart and bloodwood that we posted about earlier this week as well as some beautiful cherry we received from DRB...
by hupka | Aug 29, 2016 | Bloodwood, Purple Heart
We took a trip down to Bailey Wood Products to pick up some imported lumber this weekend. These bloodwood and purple heart boards will be incorporated into a lot of the upcoming cutting boards, handles, bottle toppers, etc that you will see being posted. As beautiful...
by hupka | Aug 17, 2016 | Bottle Topper, Cherry, Country, Events, Lathe, Maple, Purple Heart, Walnut
This glue up for the lathe will probably become some bottle toppers soon. However it is long enough to be turned into a handle. Walnut, cherry and maple with paper thin slices of purple heart mixed in. It’s going to be beautiful once it’s shaped and...