The crazy thing about woodworking as a hobby is that – for the most part – it’s a solitary type of event. You get time away from everyone in your sanctum, alone with your thoughts.

Yeah, for an extrovert (more like an exhibitionist) like me, that’s not gonna cut it. That’s part of the reason why I have been keeping this blog going for coming up on seven (???) years.

The other thing I have noticed is that other woodworkers seem to enjoy the whole woodworking community thing. That’s why I could feel the stars align earlier this week when everyone’s favorite Jersey-bred Italian woodworker Marc Spagnuolo paid a visit to Dirty Water lovin’ Boston-to-the-heart Wicked Pissah Tommy MacDonald’s shop to shoot an upcoming episode of Rough Cut.

While this fuzzy focus film grab isn’t as exciting as seeing Bigfoot in the wild, it does capture a fleeting glimpse of two of the biggest up-and-coming names in woodworking in the same shop preparing to build a project that will be coming out in the next season.

Now, this is hardly the first time two big-name woodworkers have gotten together. There was the time that Steve Ramsey of Woodworking for Mere Mortals met his new neighbor… what’s his name?

And, of course magazines always bring big names in woodworking – like Norm Abram and Steve Shanesy of Popular Woodworking – together for articles that go beyond the simple, “Here’s how you build that,” to shed more light on the entire process and the joy they get from the craft.

I think that’s why events such as Weekend with Wood and Woodworking in America are also catching on – it’s bringing together more and more folks to make the craft a whole lot more dynamic. And, local woodworking stores like Infinity Cutting Tools are offering classes, as are established woodworking schools like the Franklin Street Fine Woodworking School here in Tampa…

Well, folks, it’s a movement.

And, I couldn’t be any happier to be a small part of it!