woodworking

Updated: June 3, 2025

Indeed the last half-century has seen the good white pine of the world pretty nearly used up, certainly all the best of it, for woodworking purposes. Fifty years ago it was the cheapest New England wood, today it is the highest-priced, and the old-time clear pine, free from knots and sapwood is almost impossible to obtain at any price.

Winthrop Packard - Old Plymouth Trails

But these were built of wood and were far from being massive or imposing. As in other periods of Japanese architecture, the exterior was sacrificed to the interior where there were choice woodworking and joinery in beautiful woods, and occasionally screen-or wall-painting as decoration. There was still little house-furnishing.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

The Indian referred to, however, has learned something of the Eskimo language, and also a little English English that you cannot always understand, but must take for granted. He was very proud of his accomplishments. The Indian hauls his loads in winter on toboggans, which he manufactures himself with his ax and crooked knife the only woodworking tools he possesses.

Dillon Wallace - The Long Labrador Trail