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Responsible Timber explores woodworking, portable sawmilling, entrepreneurship, and philosophy—through the lens of building a sustainable business and a meaningful life with your hands.
Sawing Through Life's Challenges: Finding Strength in Persistence
Sawing logs is like life's challenges.
Jason Smith
Jul 7, 20243 min read
Sawdust and Society: How AI is helping in my sawmill business
How AI is helping my sawmill business.
Jason Smith
Jun 25, 20243 min read
From Logs to Luxury: Crafting a Custom Hickory Vanity and the Decline of Red Oak
I had the privilege to take my mill and visit the mountains in East Tennessee and saw for a couple days. This customer is planning to...
ptsmith12
Jun 16, 20242 min read
Innovation in Lumber
What do you do with a white oak whiskey barrel? Turn it into drawers for an interesting piece for your kitchen. I went and visited with...
ptsmith12
May 21, 20243 min read
From Trees to Treasure: Unveiling the beauty of Black Walnut and Cherry
My journey began with a request from a homeowner who envisioned adding the rich, dark tones of black walnut to their living space. They...
ptsmith12
May 5, 20242 min read
Harvesting Sustainability: Responsible Timbers latest projects
Having the creativity and ability to take a log destined for the burn pile and make it into something beautiful is truly an honor. In...
ptsmith12
Apr 21, 20242 min read
Creating Art with my sawmill
My portable sawmill has been buzzing and slicing logs that were headed to the burn pile over the last week. I was able to take these logs...
ptsmith12
Apr 7, 20241 min read
Crafting Purpose with my Portable Sawmill
Over the past couple of weeks, I had the privilege of assisting a gentleman who had cleared a small plot of land to build his daughter’s...
ptsmith12
Mar 17, 20242 min read
From Trees to Treasures
Over the past few weeks, our portable sawmill journey has taken us through an exciting array of projects, each one a testament to the...
ptsmith12
Feb 28, 20242 min read
A Week of Sawdust and Splinters
Crafting with Alaskan-Milled Ash, Red Oak, and Hickory This week brought the rhythmic hum of saw blades and the sweet scent of freshly...
ptsmith12
Feb 3, 20241 min read
Embracing the Craft: A Journey through Recent Sawmill Adventures
In the heart of the woodworking world, where the scent of fresh timber fills the air and the hum of my sawmill echos, my recent sawmill...
ptsmith12
Jan 21, 20241 min read
A week with the Mill: Crafting beauty from Cedar, Osage Orange and Ash Logs
The last couple weeks been a whirlwind of sawdust at Responsible Timber, where our portable sawmill transformed cedar and ash logs into...
ptsmith12
Jan 15, 20241 min read
Sawing logs in Tennessee
This past weeks sawing on the road was amazing. I'm blessed to be able to go all over middle TN and see the beautiful rural parts of this...
ptsmith12
Jun 18, 20231 min read
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