Many of my projects are not ordinary. Where one may know nothing about woodworking , or how it was made. The choosing of what wood you will use and mostly how you are going to design a project that I visualize and never had a plan except a doodle sketch that looks like a 3 year old drew it. Never having any woodworking lessons, it was a challenge. I loved woodworking so much that my internal thought design concept deeply embedded into my head. So how do I build a project that I have or never had a plan for? I call it a gift I’m thankful for. It takes a true woodworker to recognize the amount of time you’ve spent working on a project. Some would take weeks. Since so much furniture is fabricated all over the world in masses, those who have never been inside a woodwork shop underestimate the time spent building furniture from a slab of wood that was felled for the sake of new development , such as residential housing and stores. Pines, and many other species that end up in the mill shop where I procure the wood and stack the wood to air-dry under cover for many years. It’s always the piece on the bottom that you need and for that my tractor has come in handy. Being a woodworker takes patience and doesn’t always go the way you wanted it to. To have to reengineer a design that is rather complex and working out the mathematical equations on a project I’ve never built and designed. In the end, we get to the finish line and it’s on to the next project. Here’s to some of my projects over the years. The wooden chandelier is the newest and hanging in our kitchen with the dinette set made. I will never build a project twice. There will always be one! Never to be duplicated again.
Southern Carpenter 
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