Lloyd

I worked professionally as a carpenter for some odd 17 years and like many things in life;you can take the man from carpentry but you'll never get the carpentry out of the man.
I have done it all from digging the footer to nailing the last ridge cap shingle on.Luckily the people that I worked for recognized my talent for custom carpentry and I always got to work on what I loved best and was best at.I also was a helluva production trim carpenter.
I have always wanted to do something outside the envelope of carpentry-something that at the time of conception is unique ( the only ONE piece that can't easily be described and does not show signs of someone else's concepts.).
Right now all that I am doing is"High End" trunk restoration and I have learned much from it but I have this anxiousness to design and build something "fine." I like the idea of using sustainable wood (and roots)in the natural is the only way that I know how to say it,but a piece of birch plywood doesn't scare me away.
There is one thing that I hope to learn here is;I was helping a cabinet builder install cabinets in his own house(he has long since passed).We used a wood by product that was like particle board but so highly compressed (and if I remember correctly,you could get in 5/4 thickness ) but you could route it or anything to it and it would still maintain it's integrity.It would finish with so much density that it would take take a lacquer finish.We finished his in white and it was piano quality.
What few times I've wanted to use it people look at me and I can almost here then thinking "this guy's of his rocker."
Anyway, that's one of the first things I hope to learn here.