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• Spike Carlsen •
A Splintered
History of WOOD
Belt Sander Races,
Blind Woodworkers, and Baseball Bats
For Kat: My xylem, my phloem, my roots, my sunshine, the love of my life.
CONTENTS
introduction vii
1. Extraordinary Woods 1
Fifty-Thousand-Year-Old Wood Lives and Breathes Again
In Quest of the World’s Most Expensive Board Foot Oak: The Breakfast of Civilizations
The Wood Freak Show
Bamboo: The Grass That Thinks It’s a Wood Rescuing Redwood the Hard Way
Logging the Industrial Forest
Wood: How It Got Here, How Trees Make It
2. The Wacky World of Woodworkers 46
A Chainsaw Artist a Cut Above the Rest
My Seven Awkward Minutes with the Man Who Carves Ferraris
Woodworking Blind—Just Like Everyone Else How Much Wood Would a Wood Collector Collect?
Nakashima: The Pavarotti of Woodworking Still Sings
My Almost-Perfect Interview with Woodworker Jimmy Carter
3. The Tools That Work the Wood 91
As the Lathe Turns: Making Golf Tees with the Master Tool Junky Heaven
The Table Saw That Couldn’t Cut a Hot Dog in Half
Belt Sander Racing: A Saga of True Grit, Speed, and Victory (sort of)
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