Mac McAllister spent 40 years in the Ozark timber until the timber took what it was owed. He is 71 now. His hands do not open all the way anymore. He sits in a chair by the workshop window and runs 2 fingers across every board before it ships. His standard has not changed in 40 years.
Kara, his daughter, runs the bench. Tyler, his grandson, packs the boards in canvas and drops them at the post office on his way to school.
Specialty retailers who carry Osage orange at all list comparable boards at $189 to $249. Mac's price is $99. Not because the board is different in quality. Because there is no retailer, no distributor, and no showroom margin built in. The $99 goes from your card to Douglas County, Missouri, with nobody taking a cut in the middle.
These 200 boards are Mac's last. Kara carries the name forward after this. The next direct sale has no confirmed date.