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Brandon Smith

Brandon Smith

Woodworker and owner of Cross & Miter, a custom furniture shop in New York's Hudson Valley, and co-founder of The Maine Woodworking Event.

Sep 24, 2026

38:38
What the?
38:39
But so at Handworks, I was talking to Bad Axe.
38:42
And I'm like, man, you know, we need to do something even like more special since you guys helped us create the event and blah, blah, blah.
38:49
And at some point, the conversation turned to like, oh, man, it would be dope if like you can make some Applewood handles for some saws.
38:57
And she's like, the amount of people who ask for Applewood and we just can't get it.
39:01
like it's just not available and i realized i know a dude who has the biggest orchard in upstate new york so i sent him a message i'm like hey dude can we get some applewood and then i sent him a picture of the handles he's like bring the truck you can take as much as you want right like we're always culling trees like i'll load you up you can take as much as you want so i i let cast know i'm like hey we got a connection on some applewood She was like, dude, this is incredible.
39:26
I was like, so I'm thinking we'll make some custom main event Applewood saws and you can only get them at the main event, at least year one, you know, like we release them on and giveaways we do will be Applewood handle saws.
JoeyHOST
42:14
water there,

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