It's lathe work. Because of what I do, a woodworking guild found me right away in my very first few years. We host different types of meetings at our facility because they have access to local woods. They were always buying these awesome imported woods, and as people learned and had their projects fail, they realized that when you import some of the woods from different countries and different growing conditions, they fail way faster. We have really competitive, if not the most beautiful, wood products right in our own backyards. People don't know that. They think to get a beautiful hand-turned bowl or piece of furniture that it must come from somewhere else. If I said local box elder or Manitoba maple, it would be exotic Manitoba maple from Canada if it were in China or somewhere else. It's only exotic if you're not standing in the country that it comes from.
On November 22nd, 2017. See this statement in context.