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There are many things that I have learned as a woodworker over the years, but two of the most important are the myth that only narrow glued up boards are stable, and, the importance of matching wood. Since my high school shop days I have been told that the only way to insure stability in

Curly cherry highboy built by Irion Co. My name is Louis Irion, and my wife Wanda, and I are the owners and founders of the Irion Lumber Company. Our lumber company is the outgrowth of a custom furniture business I started in 1977, called Irion Company-Furnituremakers. We were making high end eighteenth century furniture to

Not only is it possible, using wide boards can add value to your pieces. By Louis Irion It was well into my woodworking career before I even heard the myth that you couldn’t use wide boards in furniture and millwork because they were absolutely prone to misbehavior. I do remember my woodworking professor at industrial