Carved Table

oodworking has both changed and stayed the same over the centuries. We used to make so many things from wood — shoes, buckets, houses, weapons, windmills — a full list of its purposes would be both substantial and amazing. Today, the things we make from wood are fewer, and where we get our wood has changed as well. For instance, I’ve walked into a barn constructed in the late 1800s that was made primarily from black walnut. Walnut was the type of trees found on that Iowa farm, and the farmer built from what he had. In our modern world we often buy our wood products at lumberyards and big