Forrest Chopmaster

There's good news from Appalachia: the base of hardwood timber growing in the area is up 300,000 acres since 1990, a figure that includes 115 billion cu. ft. of trees. That's good news because Appalachian hardwoods are a great source for woodworkers, and harvesting is clearly verified by sustainability due to the program enacted by AHMI (Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers, Inc.) that plants 2.29 trees for every one tree that's harvested. Thus, the essential partner of any respectable set of woodworking equipment and tools is being nurtured, and offered on woodworking web sites.

White and red oaks, hickory, yellow birch, hard and soft maple, beech, sweetgum, tupelo, blackgum, ash, cottonwood, aspen, basswood, yellow poplar, black walnut, and other eastern hard and softwoods are being monitored in the Appalachian Region. Replanting programs ensure their sustainability while woodworkers everywhere take advantage of the rare abundance of raw materials that validate most clearly the best woodworking equipment and tools. Librawood.com provides access to reports about the conditions of hardwood supplies through the Woodezine online journal that can be "paged through" during a visit to the Black Hills School of Woodworking link. And Librawood.com also provides the finest tools made, like the Forrest Chopmaster miter saw and the Whiteside routers; tools that make the most of these beautiful native Eastern hard and softwoods.

The Appalachian Hardwood Territory spans twelve states, including Kentucky, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Scattered throughout these states are fine woodworkers who have been enjoying quality products, like the Forrest Chopmaster and Woodworker I and II saw blades for years. "Why not use the very best tools when you have access to the finest raw materials?" the logic goes. So, the woodworkers of this vast and beautiful Appalachian area sustain and use the raw materials given them by Mother Nature, while Librawood.com supplies the finest in human ingenuity.