Leatherstocking Hand-Split Billet Co. knows its wood. The wood that makes some of the best bats found in Major League Baseball. Located in the epicenter of this wood in Upstate New York ...

They were in search of treasure — hand-cut logs well over a century old, the forgotten legacy of milling operations that flourished along the river until after the Civil War.

Hewing logs by hand keeps Cumberland craftsman busy Stephen Smith is, to his knowledge, the only craftsperson hand-hewing logs commercially in North America.