Who Are You and What Do You Want?

Writing a blog about my woodworking is both inspiring and intimidating. While there is no deadline being imposed on me, I do feel some pressure to come up with something interesting to say when I do make a blog post. There is no place for feedback on my blog for a reason. Some people just can’t resist writing stupid, inflammatory, racist gibberish if given a space to do it. Just look at what people post on Facebook. I do want feedback though, comments, what you would like me to write about etc. Here’s my site email address: steveatsanderswoodworkingdotnet. I have to write it that way to keep the bots from picking it up and selling it to whoever they sell email addresses to. If you are so inclined, write me an email, ask me anything reasonable and I will reply. I have been working with wood for 53 years.

I can often see what city, state and country my visitors/readers are from but not always. Yesterday I got visitors from Sweden and Turkey for example. They clicked on an item in Pinterest. The lion’s share of my visitors are from the US.

I sell almost exclusively on the internet. My primary “stores” are this website and my ETSY store. I’ve done one large corporate gift order of over 80 bowls. I’d like a few more of those to roll in just anytime. I’ve sold to some craft stores too.

The downside of internet and wholesale stores is the lack of personal contact with my customers. I have several long term customers that have bought many different items. I do get to know them to some degree. Some of them call and some email and many of my ETSY customers leave feedback on their purchases.

If you have suggestions for future blog posts, have feedback you want to give or just say hello, please write me an email. I would especially like to hear from the person in Ireland who has visited the site many, many times. I will eventually have a place on the website for feedback/testimonials so any of those you send I will save with your permission.

Here is a recent bowl I really like. It’s spalted willow oak with a through knot hole.

#2051 Spalted Willow Oak 10 1/4” X 4 3/4”