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TrueNorth Woodworking Veteran owned homebased woodworking business. Founded 2018, located in Yorktown, VA.
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Story time... my wife Mary was riding bikes with her younger sister Jennifer side by side on a neighborhood street.... ...
10/25/2026

Story time... my wife Mary was riding bikes with her younger sister Jennifer side by side on a neighborhood street.... a drunk driver struck Jennifer and killed her instantly.... the driver fled and was arrested a short time later....

Jennifer was 10....

Fast forward to 2002 when Mary came into my life, this rocking chair came into our home with a doll sitting in it... This chair belonged to Jennifer, It was given to her when she was just 2 yrs old.

For almost 25 years this chair has been an important piece of furniture in our home....recently it came apart when Mary picked it up to move it. The chair has been worked on previously by Mary's dad. The glue he used to keep it together wasn't really the right type..so.... We fixed that....

The chair was disassembled, old glue cleaned out and re glued....its ready for another 49 years...




I was down all last week with Pink eye and not on social media but we were busy before that.... 🤣 Completed some furnitu...
10/25/2026

I was down all last week with Pink eye and not on social media but we were busy before that.... 🤣

Completed some furniture restoration on two tables. Took all the old finish off, cleaned them and applied a new clearcoat. We also built 2 windows from scratch using the old window as a guide.













We had a new client reach out to us with a very specific and special project that is extremely meaningful to the client....
10/15/2026

We had a new client reach out to us with a very specific and special project that is extremely meaningful to the client.

I really enjoy working on these kinds of projects..... they require attention to detail and my best efforts.... knowing full well what I'm creating will bring a lifetime of reminders and memories.

The clients Grandmother had a dining room table that had been passed down from family member to the next... for a very long time so lots of history before she passed away. The table was in disrepair and missing components....SO.....

The client asked us to make 12 pens using wood from the table. The table was extremely well built and had a stained veneere as the outside layer.

The wood harvested for the pen blanks was a light colored wood with vety tight grain. The client wanted the pens to match the top color as close as possible. Several attempts to stain the wood and change its color were unsuccessful...so we had to get creative.

We cut the material to size, drilled a hole down the center, glued a brass tube in the hole, then turned the pen to final size and lightly sanded them to 600 grit.

Once all 12 pen blanks (24 pieces) were ready, we placed them in a bin with stain and put that in a vacumn chamber. We removed all the air from chamber, the stain and the wood and let it set. Removing all the air allows the stain to replace the space where the air molecules were....thus fully penetrating the wood.

We took everything out of he chamber and let it dry for 2 days before putting them all back on the lathe to wet sand them to 12,000 grit, then we polished them with a fiction polish before final assembly of all the pen kit parts.

We are extremely pleased with the outcome!!













October is Halloween season....haven't had very good weather to work on some furniture refinishing projects we have in t...
10/03/2026

October is Halloween season....haven't had very good weather to work on some furniture refinishing projects we have in the shop so we have been busy working on Holloween decor...

If your local....hit us up...Got Jack O'Lanterns, Pumpkins and Halloween signs ready to go!!

Its Jack O Lantern Season!!!$20 candle included.... pick the number for the Lantern you need and send us a message!!Made...
09/13/2026

Its Jack O Lantern Season!!!

$20 candle included.... pick the number for the Lantern you need and send us a message!!

Made out of cedar....Will last a long time

Approx 9x6x4

Local pick up!

WE ARE BACK!! WE ARE OPEN!!If you have been wondering what I've been up too...check the link below ..scroll down as far ...
08/30/2026

WE ARE BACK!! WE ARE OPEN!!

If you have been wondering what I've been up too...check the link below ..scroll down as far as you want to go... you will see my 2024 Alaska trip or in just the last couple weeks ...I rode a motorcycle to the 4 corners of the USA in 18 travel days.

and....

WE HAVE SOME EXCITING NEWS!!!

Mary and I have been diligently working and saving money for almost 6 years for a very specific tool for the business.

We are extremely happy and fortunate to finally have Lasers in the shop. Ready for your engraving and cutting needs.

We currently have 2 lasers.

Gweike Cloud 50 Watt CO2 laser (11.8 x 20 work area)

OmTech 100 Watt CO 2 Laser (24 × 43 work area)

4 Corners USA 2026

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WE ARE CLOSED!!!!!! Don’t get excited….it’s Not permanent! If you know me you know, if your New to following us….well...
08/02/2026

WE ARE CLOSED!!!!!!

Don’t get excited….it’s Not permanent! If you know me you know, if your New to following us….well.....

Sprocket is packed and ready to go!!!

I have been an AVID motorcycle rider pretty much my entire life…. 2 years ago I completed the Ultimate Coast to Coast motorcycle ride. I rode from Key West, FL to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska in 9 days (6300 miles one way) and then I spent another 23 days riding around Alaska and the Northern USA racking up 14,939 miles in 23 solid days of riding. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and work your way up…All my trip photos are posted.

This year, I am riding to the 4 corners of the USA in a single trip. My home in Virginia to Madawaska, ME, to Blaine, WA, to San Ysidro, CA to Key West, FL andf back to Virginia in a single trip…should be about 11,500 to 12,000 miles give or take!!!

The Garmin map link will display my exact location every 10 minutes…. Just follow the link, enter the password and see where Im at!!!

If you have suggestions for MUST SEE items or locations… POST them in a reply!!!

We also have the original Alaska Crew on this trip!!! CPT Puddles, SGT Blue, Ms Bubbles and Gas Station Jesus!!!

FOLLOW ALONG!!!

Motorcycle FB page
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Garmin Map
https://share.garmin.com/Sprocket

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I have said, jokingly, for years....that Pinterest and other sites like it are in some ways the bane of my business exi...
07/26/2026

I have said, jokingly, for years....that Pinterest and other sites like it are in some ways the bane of my business existence.... we literally get 20 messages a month and no actual projects. 😂 😂

Nowadays, Artificial intelligence has entered the field and really keeps craftsman on their toes.

Case in point...the project we just completed for a new client who is an event coordinator putting on a 60th event.

Take a look at the stock photo the client sent us asking if we could manufacture this....specifically the large flower on the left.....NONE of the petals touch anything to hold them in place. A dead giveaway that the image is AI.

Sooo....we converted the file into something the CNC machine could read and cut and that included changing the flower so it will actually stay together in one piece.

We are pretty pleased with how this turned out and the client is extremely happy which is all that really matters.













Happy 4th of July 2026!! Hope everyone is having a great holiday with friends and family.We delivered another project th...
07/05/2026

Happy 4th of July 2026!! Hope everyone is having a great holiday with friends and family.

We delivered another project this week to a new client. The client goes to outdoor events and sells books, they contacted us to see if we could design and build a specific set of shelves and storage space to fit in a very unique vehicle.

The "Bongo truck" as its known is very well known in Korea and Southwest Asia. I drove them a lot in Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan.

This was a great project to build despite the 100+ temperatures outside... We hope to see the project in use here in the very near future.













Hello everyone,If you have been wondering where I have been.....I have been busy and working as much as I can trying to ...
06/04/2026

Hello everyone,

If you have been wondering where I have been.....I have been busy and working as much as I can trying to get the shop expansion project over the finish line. In amongst the furniture repairs and Thor Hammers that we had orders for....Im not sure if you all are interested in furniture repair pictures....let me know down below if thats something you would like to see.

Back in 2017 when I designed and started building the shop, I decided to make the shop 2 stories instead of trying to fight the county and zoning department with trying to make it all on one level.

Half of my almost 2 acre property is in a county "Resource Managment Area". That means that the acre plus of woodland in the back is off limits to cutting trees down without county permission. I should have at least tried to get them to allow me to cut more down than I did for where the shop is now..

Having a 24x30 2 story shop has been a blessing I dont have the words to describe.... however going up and down the stairs with projects to use the tools upstairs and then take the project back down stairs to continue to work on it has gotten very old...

Enter the shop expansion project. The shop has always had a lean too on the right side to store my boat under cover.... I decided the 13.5 × 28.5 area would be a perfect place to put most of the tools that are upstairs that I use a lot.

So more than 2 yrs ago we began the expansion. I do not believe in taking out loans for these types of things so I saved money or earned the money needed to purchase everything outright.....it takes a little longer to get things done but I dont owe a penny. The whole shop is paid for.

All the construction projects on the shop are complete except for pouring a sidewalk and a few loose ends like fixing the concrete where the garage door is and finishing up some outside siding details. The shop is now just over 1800sq ft and we need to get tools reorganized and moved around to best fit the needs and make room for some new tools. So stay tuned!!

Thanks for following along and all the support!!

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Arlington, VA
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