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Rugged, handcrafted, heirloom-grade benches built with pre-industrial era woodworking techniques, right here in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina.

We didn’t come home from our road trip vacation empty-handed! 🪵🚙These THICK cookies came from a felled Maple tree in my ...
10/14/2026

We didn’t come home from our road trip vacation empty-handed! 🪵🚙

These THICK cookies came from a felled Maple tree in my mother-in-law’s front yard in Wisconsin. Naturally, I saw future coffee tables—and Jeanie saw more wood coming home. 😂

At roughly 8 inches thick, they’ve got some serious presence. I may take a chainsaw to them and halve the thickness, or leave them chunky and let the wood do the talking.

Either way, after some drying time and a little Woobie Woodworks love, they’ll soon be in someone else’s beautiful home. A Wisconsin story with an Appalachian finish.

Little pieces of the old pergola at Biltmore’s Walled Garden are getting a new life in the Woobie Woodworks shop.When th...
09/27/2026

Little pieces of the old pergola at Biltmore’s Walled Garden are getting a new life in the Woobie Woodworks shop.

When the garden’s pergola came down, I saved a handful of its decorative rafter tails—the shaped ends of the timbers that ran across the top. You can see them in these first photos, just as I’m beginning to clean them up.

I’m turning them into “Limited Vanderbilt Collection” Corbels. Each one will keep the character it earned over the years and become a wall-mounted lighting feature.

Take a look at the last photo for an idea of the finished concept. It’s inspiration, not one of my completed pieces, but it shows the kind of warm light and rustic presence I’m after.

They’ll be available for sale soon. I believe I saved only nine. The rest were sent to the burn pit and lost forever. So, this will be a very limited run. Follow along as they come to life!

I bought a pair of wooden handscrews this week, and they immediately gave me a little shop problem to solve.If you haven...
09/24/2026

I bought a pair of wooden handscrews this week, and they immediately gave me a little shop problem to solve.

If you haven’t used them, the wooden jaws can be adjusted independently. That lets you grip an odd shape, hold a piece at an angle, or spread pressure across a wider area without metal jaws touching your work.

Storage took more thought. I hang my F-clamps by tightening them onto the overhead joists. But, handscrews have two handles to turn, and their jaws don’t open and close with a quick slide. Cranking both screws every time I put them away would get old fast.

So I built a simple spot on the shop wall where they can hang ready to grab. I’m leaving some pics here to show how it came together, in case you’d like to make something similar for your own shop.

Sometimes a small shop improvement is just giving a good tool a proper place to live.


Something feels old-fashioned about this part.One letter at a time, I place a small steel punch against the wood, settle...
09/15/2026

Something feels old-fashioned about this part.

One letter at a time, I place a small steel punch against the wood, settle its edge into the grain, and give it a deliberate tap with the hammer. L. i. m. i. t. e. d. Then the next word. Then the next.

No machine. No laser. No perfect computerized lettering. Just steel, a hammer, my hands—and the fibers of an old piece of timber accepting a permanent mark.

Limited Vanderbilt Collection No. 13

Thirteen benches now, each handcrafted from these remarkable old timbers that once were part of the old pergola overlooking Biltmore’s Walled Garden. And when that final number is struck into the underside, it feels a little like signing the last page of a story before sending it on to its next home.

Handcrafted in the Appalachian Mountains.

Stop and let time do its thing.Appalachian sunshine and a finish curing quietly.
09/14/2026

Stop and let time do its thing.

Appalachian sunshine and a finish curing quietly.

I love it when it’s “dress rehearsal day.”That’s the day I take all the pieces I’ve shaped from an old, weathered 4×10 b...
09/09/2026

I love it when it’s “dress rehearsal day.”

That’s the day I take all the pieces I’ve shaped from an old, weathered 4×10 beam, fit everything together, and find out whether the plan in my head actually worked.

And this one worked. 👊

Now it’s on to the finishing phase.

I’m especially excited for this client because he told me he wanted a bench that looked like it had lived a hundred years. I think we’re getting pretty darn close.

This wood has certainly earned the look. For roughly two decades, it stood outdoors as part of the old pergola over Biltmore’s Walled Garden—through Appalachian winters, summer sun, rain, wind and probably its fair share of hailstorms.

I didn’t want to erase all that history. I wanted to build with it.

The cracks, weathering, knots and scars are staying right where they belong. Now it’s time for the finish to bring all that character to life.

There are few things more rewarding to a craftsman than seeing a piece you built by hand find its place in someone’s hom...
08/21/2026

There are few things more rewarding to a craftsman than seeing a piece you built by hand find its place in someone’s home.

And then you receive words like these.

“Thank you for this beautiful piece of furniture! It is the focal point of our home. The workmanship is beyond words.”

I’m incredibly humbled by that. Every Woobie Woodworks piece spends a lot of hours in my little mountain shop—working old timber, preserving its scars and character, and doing my best to build something worthy of another chapter in someone’s home.

Kelley, thank you for trusting me with this one, and for taking the time to share such kind words. Knowing that something I built has become a focal point in your home means more to me than you probably realize.

This is why I love what I do.

— Vic
Woobie Woodworks
𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴
(📸pic: by Client Kelley Wilson)

I had to stop. No more building benches or anything until I upgrade one of the most important tools in the shop—my woodw...
07/31/2026

I had to stop.

No more building benches or anything until I upgrade one of the most important tools in the shop—my woodworking vise.

It’s not a fancy vise. In fact, it’s considered “budget” by woodworkers. But I’ve learned that good craftsmanship comes more from the hands using a tool than the price tag hanging on it.

I did decide to spoil it a little, though.

The new jaw pads are made from wenge, an incredibly dense hardwood from Africa. It’s beautiful, tough as nails, and should serve this shop for many years while protecting the furniture I’m building.

Running a small woodworking business means constantly balancing production with improving the shop itself. Every hour spent making a jig, tuning a machine, sharpening a blade, or upgrading something like a vise is an hour I’m not building furniture…but it’s also an investment that makes every piece after it just a little better.

That’s the part of woodworking most people never see—and honestly, I enjoy that side of it just as much.

My hands carved these tusks from one little board. There’s something deeply satisfying about taking a rough 1×6×12 offcu...
07/23/2026

My hands carved these tusks from one little board.

There’s something deeply satisfying about taking a rough 1×6×12 offcut and shaping it, one rasp and one sanding block at a time, into a part that will undoubtedly outlive me.

The wood came from a small boxed assortment of exotic hardwoods I picked up at Scavenger’s Paradise here in Asheville. It was labeled Tigerwood, which is the trade name most commonly used for Gonçalo Alves—an incredibly hard, durable tropical hardwood with beautiful golden-brown color and dark, tiger-like streaks.

These tusks lock the stretcher into place. The stretcher is the horizontal beam that runs beneath the bench seat, connecting the two legs. It keeps the legs from spreading under load and gives the bench much of its strength. The tusks are driven through the tenon, creating a mechanical lock that can hold for generations without relying solely on glue or screws—a method inspired by pre-industrial woodworking traditions.

On Monday, these Tigerwood tusks—and the bench they belong to—will head home with a local client who values craftsmanship, rugged heirloom furniture, traditional woodworking, and supporting small veteran-owned businesses.

Sometimes after a fresh Appalachian rain, I’ll walk out and just stand there looking over these stacks of old timber.It ...
07/21/2026

Sometimes after a fresh Appalachian rain, I’ll walk out and just stand there looking over these stacks of old timber.

It reminds me of something I haven’t felt since my kids were little and sleeping in their cribs. I’d look at them and wonder who they would become someday. I’d see so much promise before anyone else could.

That’s kind of how I feel when I look at these beams.

Most folks see old, weathered wood. I see heirloom benches, tables, lighting features, and pieces that will someday become part of another family’s story. I see 125-year-old barns from East Tennessee… old farms in Western North Carolina… forgotten timbers from near Chapel Hill… beams rescued from places around Pickens, South Carolina. Wood that has already lived one remarkable life and deserves another.

To me, this isn’t a lumber pile.

It’s a pile of possibility.

It’s gold.

Some of these beams don’t belong to anyone yet. Tonight they’ll just sit here, stacked neatly beneath the Appalachian sky, waiting patiently for the right person to come along. And maybe that’s my favorite part of all.

I can already picture the look on a future client’s face the day they first see what these old timbers were always meant to become.

— Vic
Owner, Woobie Woodworks
𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴

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