,What to choose? JCDC Woodworks uses hardwood found in the eastern United States. Listed below are the typical species of wood we use and a brief description that help you find the right table for your home. We can also usually get maple and white oak. ,ASH Ash has had a legendary role in baseball parks, as the big leaguer bats are usually made from Ash. It has also been widely used as handles on shovels, rakes, hoes, and other work tools. It is light-colored to nearly white and the heartwood varies from grayish to light brown, to pale yellow streaked with brown. Due to the invasion of the Em ..read more

Traditionally, “reclaimed” means wood originally used for one purpose, gathered and used for a different purpose, rather than disposing of the wood as never to be used again. Sometimes, the wood contains natural or unnatural components dangerous for consumption or exposure. Often times, people will think of shipping pallets, barn wood, old fencing, or some other type of wood when the term “reclaimed” is used. “JCDC Woodworks uses reclaimed wood to make our cutting boards.” At face value, with no other information provided, that sounds gross or at least questionable. Rest assured, JCDC values ..read more

“Why are you making and selling wood cutting boards? Aren’t those unsanitary or even dangerous!?” These are common questions so we decided to talk about– Cutting Boards: Wood vs. Plastic. Our Handmade Wood Cutting Boards are beautiful and safe. Cutting Boards: Wood vs. Plastic — there are many facts, myths, and opinions surrounding cutting boards made of wood. You may notice, JCDC Woodworks makes beautiful cutting boards. If you haven’t, take a look at them here. In this blog, we hope to dispel myths, share facts, and give you the opinions of professionals who use cutting boards more regularly ..read more

Creating Live Edge furniture with love This article was written by the ,Small Business Development Center when they visited us in Ravenswood, WV to learn more about what we do. We thought we would share it. Enjoy reading. JCDC Woodworks is a natural fit for ,Craig Greening. He inherited a love of woodcraft from his woodworker grandfather. He learned compassionate respect for people with disabilities from his sister who had Downs Syndrome. Greening has been working with individuals with disabilities for 37 years. He now serves as the executive director for the not-for-profit Jackson County Dev ..read more

George Nakashima was, in many ways, the creator of live edge furniture. He may have been the first person to take advantage of the aesthetics of live edge furniture, and then promoted that concept. As a trained architect, he realized that the contents of a house or building could alter the elements designed into the building. So he started to design and build furniture. The early Europeans, settlers in what would become the eastern United States, probably had a lot of “live edge” tables in their log cabins, but I expect that was because it was easier to build stuff that way, given their limite ..read more

In our journey to create a beautiful live edge table using a slice of tree, we note many craftsmen are using epoxy resin as an integral part of a live edge table. And right up front, let’s be clear on what epoxy resin is; it is plastic. So, why add plastic to an otherwise beautiful piece of wood built by nature? There are several reasons, but the only one we feel is important: to ensure that the tabletop is level and therefore functional. Live Edge is Unaltered Because a live edge table is truly an unaltered slice of a tree, there will be all types of “defects” in the tree, ones we actually th ..read more

Rarely do customers concern themselves with the inner-workings of where they make purchases. However, JCDC Woodworks is not your average “business.” As a matter of fact, we are a non-profit organization that continually pursues new ideas to provide training and employment for people with disabilities in West Virginia. JCDCWW is such an extraordinarily different organization, we eagerly highlight the importance of our employees. What is it that makes us so different, even extraordinary? The employees do. We began in 1978 when a couple of people got together and decided their friends and family ..read more

,What to choose? JCDC Woodworks uses hardwood found in the eastern United States. Listed below are the typical species of wood we use and a brief description that help you find the right table for your home. We can also usually get maple and white oak. ,ASH Ash has had a legendary role in baseball parks, as the big leaguer bats are usually made from Ash. It has also been widely used as handles on shovels, rakes, hoes, and other work tools. It is light-colored to nearly white and the heartwood varies from grayish to light brown, to pale yellow streaked with brown. Due to the invasion of the Em ..read more

Traditionally, “reclaimed” means wood originally used for one purpose, gathered and used for a different purpose, rather than disposing of the wood as never to be used again. Sometimes, the wood contains natural or unnatural components dangerous for consumption or exposure. Often times, people will think of shipping pallets, barn wood, old fencing, or some other type of wood when the term “reclaimed” is used. “JCDC Woodworks uses reclaimed wood to make our cutting boards.” At face value, with no other information provided, that sounds gross or at least questionable. Rest assured, JCDC values ..read more

“Why are you making and selling wood cutting boards? Aren’t those unsanitary or even dangerous!?” These are common questions so we decided to talk about– Cutting Boards: Wood vs. Plastic. Our Handmade Wood Cutting Boards are beautiful and safe. Cutting Boards: Wood vs. Plastic — there are many facts, myths, and opinions surrounding cutting boards made of wood. You may notice, JCDC Woodworks makes beautiful cutting boards. If you haven’t, take a look at them here. In this blog, we hope to dispel myths, share facts, and give you the opinions of professionals who use cutting boards more regularly ..read more