The show returned April 2018 with new host Tom McLaughlin and under the name "Rough Cut with Fine Woodworking." Tommy Mac, above, was replaced for the show's eighth season.

Bringing Cypress back to life The Sinker Cypress from Marwood Inc. of Jeffersonville, IN, is pre-cut timber salvaged from rivers and lakes, that has been naturally preserved for hundreds of years.

Rough & Ready was among 22 sawmills in Josephine and Jackson counties in 1975, the Phillippis said, down to none now. The mill was small, running one shift with 85 jobs. And the recession stung.