Runions Workshop

A Canadian woodworking studio. Eastern Ontario. Final works from a reserve of Elm, Butternut, and Ash.

There was a time when the concession roads of southern Ontario were cathedraled by elms. By the 1980s, nearly all of them were dead. A small portion of what was felled found its way to our workshop. It has been drying in our lofts for nearly forty years.Butternut followed. The canker has made it officially endangered in Canada, and the trees we are working came down before the listing. Ash is going now, to the emerald ash borer — a live extinction unfolding across the country. Each species sits in our reserve: cut, dried, irreplaceable.

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