Reply by Kindlingmaker

We build and create because there is something inside us that calls us to the wood much stronger than any economy, any country… fashioning wood is thousands of years old… I wonder if its in our genes…
In America, over the last few decades, many industries have crumbled because of the greed of the owners and the greed of importers. They can bring a country to higher economic levels or collapse a them. All of us little woodworkers can be solid with improving each item we make and maybe help carry the craft past the storms of greed and indifference…

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings