Woodworker Al Mather uses a skew chisel to remove wood spinning on a lathe as he creates an ash biscuit cutter at his home shop in China.
Mather punches a center point on a block of ash that he will turn on his lathe to create a biscuit cutter. John Patriquin / Staff Photographer
Mather works on one of his handcrafted wooden biscuit cutters.
Mather uses calipers to measure the inside of a cutter.
A finished wooden biscuit cutter sits on a lathe in Mather's shop.
Mather creates 2 1/2- and 3-inch cutters from ash wood.
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