Old radios looked great, and still do, because of great design, says Paul Sanders, a restoration specialist. Competition for the radio market pushed makers to do anything to set their radios apart and the simplest way to achieve this was through cabinet design.

If you want to make something look older, just add some worm holes.

It happens all the time, people call me and tell me about trees that are so big that they can’t get their arms around them and, unrelated but still slightly humorous, they tell me about their Chinese Elms.

For my second IWF, I began the day before the show opened as a panelist on the Woodworking Inventors Symposium. The most surprising benefit to the symposium was the interaction and the back-and-forth with other shop owners.