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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Barbara Sharon sees woodworking as more of an art form than a profession. Rappahannock Refinishers, the business she began with her partner Sandra Maskas, pays the bills but it also offers Barbara an outlet for her creativity.
"I’m an artist—a frustrated one,” she laughed. “I wanted to work with wood but I didn’t know where to start. I began with refinishing and repairing so I could learn the basics. Next, I want to go on to bigger and better things—to actually making funiture.”
Before opening her shop on Route 231 in the F.T. Valley, she learned from Sherri Woodward at Faith Mountain Herbs and Antiques, refinishing pieces with a past. The trial run at sanding, staining and varnishing convinced Barbara that she’d found her nitch. ‘‘I like to work with wood. It
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