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09/29/2025

Cody here, with a sad shop update - because it’s the last shop update. After 7 years and 8 months, this awesome chapter of our lives has come to a close. At long last, economics finally caught up to us.

I’m grateful to Jacob and Mark for our time here, grateful to anyone who has commissioned us over the years, and to friends and family who encouraged us. I think we are most grateful to the women in our lives - Lorna, Laura and Stacy - for allowing us to do all of this in the first place.

We’re not done woodworking, and we aren’t done helping each other/tool sharing, so the most important elements to us are still in tact. Still, we know it’s highly unlikely we’ll ever have a space like this ever again, so it’s a tough pill to swallow.

12/17/2020

Laura: “Where are you going with the leaf blower...?”
Me: 😎

10/10/2020

Not a bad little urban lumberyard we’ve started... This assortment of hard and soft maple, elm and red oak was milled from trees that came down during a tropical storm in August. Our 394xp paired with a 48” Alaskan mill made (relatively) quick work of these logs. Now we wait, as these 9/4 slabs likely won’t be dry and useable until early 2022.

On a side note, we wouldn’t be at this point without people like and to siphon inspiration from. Never thought we would be on the cusp of turning logs into lumber but now we’re hooked 🤷🏻‍♂️
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09/30/2020

A month and a half after tropical storm Isaias hit CT with 70mph winds, we’ve milled up over 25 trees that came down during the storm into mostly 9/4 slabs.

It’s hard to imagine that all of these trees would have ended up as firewood or mulch, especially when you open up the tree and see the figure hidden inside, formed over decades of growth. Instead, these slabs will dry over the next couple of years and be turned into one of a kind handmade furniture and home goods.

Follow their journey and ours at Resourced Woodworking on Facebook and Instagram.

08/31/2020

Cody and Mark here on a beautiful morning....ok, if I’m being honest, that’s a dumb name. Sorry Jacob 😂 So our grand total from storm damage cleanup the other day was SEVENTEEN logs. That is a lot of lumber. We’re absolutely ecstatic to have it all...our significant others are less enthused, so we gotta try and make quick work of it 😅

Mark has been showing me the ropes on how to work the Alaskan Chainsaw Mill, and with stopping down every now and again for maintenance, the saw just cuts through like butter. You definitely get a workout running it, there are back muscles I didn’t even know I had that are sore.

These slabs will all have to air dry for at least a year before they can be used, but at the end we’ll have more maple, oak and elm than we’ll know what to do with!

07/04/2020

Happy 4th to our woodworking brothers and sisters! I finished up this beefy 2” thick, 15lb BBQ cutting board with a meat juice groove and steel handles just in time for the holiday. Don’t worry, I have an open beer close by too...

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@ Forestville, Connecticut

06/01/2020

Cody here, with what is my longest running project I’ve ever taken on for a client! This kitchen cabinet is made from high quality Red Oak plywood, and the doors rails are made from solid Red Oak that came from my log I had cut up almost 2 years ago now (you can find photos of that on our page!)

This cabinet has a really cool feature that the client dreamed up and I made happen-a pull out back to store muffin tins and cookie sheets! It’s big enough to fit some boxes of cereal as well. I need something like that in my own kitchen!

The project isn’t fully complete yet. I need to install door and drawer pulls, and I’ll secure it to the existing cabinetry and side wall. But, it’s 99% there, and they need the cabinet space, so for now, here it is!

I loved working on this project, but if I’m being honest with myself, I dug myself into a hole with it. Right about the time I took on the project, we went through a few life altering events which made my time in incredibly high demand from various corners. I delivered this a solid 6 months behind schedule and I’m ashamed of that.

So in an effort to manage my time better, this will be the last large scale project that I take on for a while. Big builds like these are some of the most rewarding, but I need to get to a more stable place in my life before taking on more. I have no doubt I’ll get there. In the meantime, I’m going to take pride in this accomplishment.

If you’ve gotten this far, thanks for reading, thanks for being a fan of our page, and look forward to updates from Jacob Rea and I about what we’re working on next! Keep an eye out for Jake’s next update in particular-he’s working on something just absolutely incredible!

09/18/2019

Cody here with a history update! I just purchased this cool illustrated map of Forestville from 1880. In it you can see our “complex”...not our building per se, because it wasn’t built until almost 25 years later. At the time this was the E.N. Welch clock factory. It would later be sold to the Sessions clock company and this complex continued to make clocks until 1970. What a cool story our factory building has, and I definitely want to build a frame worthy of having this inside! We will proudly hang it up in the shop!

07/17/2019

Cody here with another “construction” project as opposed to fine woodworking. Spent the last two days replacing the roof of this awesome deck bar. It was awesome to challenge myself to do something a little more involved as well as paying homage to a fellow late woodworker who built this bar originally by trying to keep it just like it was. I gotta tell you, 15 years later the bar itself is plenty sturdy!

I don’t think I’m going to be a professional roofer any time soon (read: don’t ask us to do your roof), but we’re always game to hear about your woodworking/woodworking related projects and seeing if we can do something for you! I’ll be back with more photos soon of redoing the bar top next!

07/07/2019

Glad to finally be able to share these pictures now that this glass plate display shelf has been delivered and hung. One of my favorite pieces to date, this shelf was built for my mother to display the plates that she collected while living in Germany before I was born.

It’s made from walnut and birdseye maple, assembled with sliding dovetails and mounted using a French cleat. The headboard incorporates some reclaimed walnut offcuts from the Springfield Armory which were left over from rifle gunstocks that were used to assemble weapons for American use in WWII. I hope it brightens her day whenever she passes it in her home.
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@ Forestville, Connecticut

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Bristol, CT
06010 - 06011

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