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Wood Enthusiasts
A group of Canadians that found a passion between themselves to pursue developing, creating and engaging in community around their passions, and enthusiasm for all things wood. Founded by Larry Woodstone and Gary Gilbert in 1986 in Ontario Canada Media and internet presence include YouTube Channel: Wood Enthusiasts Podcast "Wood Enthusiasts" Facebook Wood Enthusiasts Instagram @EnthuthiastsWood Twitter: @WoodEnthusiasts

History
Established in Feb of 2018 the founding menmbers felt their community needed a resource point or a common internet presence to discuss, lead, innovate, and embrace all things wood. With a small budget and limited internet presence the two founding members along with their "come-along" companion have taken the internet by storm and have produced a well received podcast, (winning such awards as "Ear Tickler of the Week Award" by @ThePodcastFacor) wildly popular webseries showing all Canadian content called "Wood Enthusiasts" and other positive interactions on social media.

Larry and Gary
To this point Larry and Gary have a quiet history. We know from their web series and their podcast that they have known each other since 1986 when a particular unreported incident happened. There are different rumours around the internet, none verified however it is known that this incident was what caused these two to meet for the first time and begin their relationship as best friends and wood enthusiasts.

Founding Members of the Comuunity


The Main players in the community are made up of three original members of the Official Wood Enthusiasts Community in Ontario Canada. Larry Woodstone - from the Sarnia Ontario region, Larry is a carpenter, lover of wood, Original founding member since 1986. Larry runs the podcast with his team, and is part of the Writing and production crew of the web series Wood Enthusiasts (released Sept 2018) He also Blogs for the Wood Enthusiasts Wordpress at http://www.woodenthusiasts.wordpress.com Larry is the self-proclaimed "President" to which other founding members don't necessarily agree with.

Gary Gilbert III: Gary is the co-founding member to the original founding date of 1986. Gary owns hundreds of acres of land in northern Ontario in the wooded area of Muskoka. He has build his homestead and lifestyle on the love and deep passion for all things wood. His proclivities range from sniffing lumber and feeling barks to understanding the fine minute details and facets of all things wood. Gary is also a main member of the writing team for the popular Canadian webseries "Wood Enthusiasts" Gary is also known most for his creation of the concept or the idea of Rub Fresh the process of sanding down a small portion of wood in any form (finished or not) to get a brief scent or "fresh" scent of the wood for relaxation and focus purposes. can be seen on this this WOOD ENTHUSIASTS YouTube link Glen Clutterbuck - Third and newest member of the "Founding Fathers" of the Wood Enthusiasts community. Glen has worked hard and worked his way into being one of the top three members of the Wood Enthusiasts community. While he has history with the founding members, due to Glens self proclaimed "Passion for Hydration" which las led to job loss, financial ruin and divorce, the founders had previously distanced themselves. Recently however Glen is back on board and is more hydrated than ever. Glen is active on social media with a twitter account handle of @GlenClutterbuck, and is also one of the head writers on the webseries and a regular occurring contributer for the program "Wood Enthusiasts"

Other Members of the Primary players include
Carl Philips: Nothing more than the brother in law of Gary Gilbert III who has the desire to understand a learn more about wood, but is limited in his ability to reason, retain knowledge, or have an intelligent conversation. Carl is often found on small clips or outtakes as he often runs the hand cam for filming of "on location" shots. Douglas Fir: While Douglas holds tight to his alias to protect his family and business from the fame and rise in popularity of the show, Douglas has recently become more and more a part of the show as an "Expert" in carpentry and as a reoccurring regular on the ever popular web series Paul Paul hasn't earned his stripes yet, but is currently the lead sound engineer on the team. he will not be represented with a last name in public at the request of two of the founding members (namely Larry Woodstone and Glen Clutterbuck). Social media has rumored that there is either history or some sort of familial ties between Paul and Gary Gilbert III one of the founding members, but there has been not official verification from their website or their web series on this matter.

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