The shop
One bench, one board at a time
Heartwood Notions started the way most woodshop side doors open: someone in the house quilts, and someone in the house owns a jointer. The first clapper was a scrap of walnut with the corners knocked off. It never left the ironing board again.
Everything in the shop is made from kiln-dried North American hardwood — walnut, hard maple, and cherry — chosen board by board for straight grain and good weight. Tools are cut, shaped, and sanded to 320 grit by hand. Working faces ship bare on purpose — breathing wood is what sets a seam — and everything else is finished with an all-natural oil-and-wax blend that protects the wood and lets the grain speak.
This is a small operation, and that's a feature. Small batches mean every edge gets eased by hand and every tool gets looked over before it's wrapped. If something isn't right when it arrives, reply to your order email and we'll make it right — that's the whole returns policy.
The name
Heartwood is the dense center of the tree — the old growth that gives a board its weight and color. It's the part that makes a clapper worth having, and it seemed like the right thing to name a shop after: the good stuff at the center, rings all the way out.