WILLMAR -- James Dykema said he doesn't consider himself an artist when he's making his handcrafted wooden furniture. But there's little doubt that he looks at wood with an artist's eye when he's ...
If you have a couple of cedar trees in your yard that need to come down, why let them go to waste once they're out of the ground? Instead, you can easily transform these simple logs into quality ...
The two hunks of wood in Richard Kimbrell’s hands are so weathered, so fragmented, so eaten by insects or worms that they’re fraying apart in long splinters. But he sees something, when he holds them ...
A northeast Iowa company has expanded from operating the largest producing sawmill in the state to running five companies related to woodworking. The Kendrick Forest Products sawmill is located in a ...
Sanding is never fun, but everything about how you're doing it makes it far worse than it needs to be. Here are some master ...
Carl Mahlstedt, owner of Goosebay Lumber in Chichester, throws a piece of wood in front of the electric motor that runs the mill saw in the lumber yard on Monday. Credit: GEOFF FORESTER photos / ...
The price of lumber has more than doubled over the past year, and economists warn that things might stay this way for a while. That's why people like Hans Dow are getting crafty. "I was like, well, I ...
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