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- Welcome to the 
"Volunteer Woodworker."

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I'm your host, Charles Brock.

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Come with me as we 
drive the back roads,

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bringing you the story of 
America's finest woodworkers.

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We're going to Ashland, 
Tennessee to meet Anne Briggs.

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Anne is a social media phenom,

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known as Anne of All Trades.

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She is a farmer, a 
teacher, and a woodworker.

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In fact, Anne is anything 
she can will herself to be.

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Anne turns her weaknesses 
into strengths.

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Let's meet Anne Briggs.

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- [Announcer] 
"Volunteer Woodworker" 
is funded in part by.

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has been producing 
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in Claremont, North Carolina.

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for edge forming, grooving, 
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available in 56 colors.

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Milk paint creates 
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that can be distressed 
for an antique look.

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Good Wood Nashville 
designs custom furniture

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and is a supplier of 
vintage hardwoods.

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Keri Price with 
Keller Williams Realty

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has been assisting Middle 
Tennessee home buyers

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and sellers since 2013.

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Mayfield Hardwood Lumber,

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supplying Appalachian 
hardwoods worldwide.

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Anna's Creative Lens, 
crafters of resin

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on wood decorative arts.

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- Anne Briggs.

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- Hey.

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- Anne of All Trades, 
we're here at the homestead

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and there's so much going on.

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Tell me about it.

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- Well, we do a little 
bit of everything here.

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I chose the name Anne of 
All Trades for a reason,

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because I didn't want to 
be pegged into one thing.

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We've got dairy cows, 
dairy goats, beef,

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we're raising pork,

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we're raising a garden,

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we've got a school 
we're building,

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my trade school to teach 
disappearing life skills.

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We've got all the things 
all the time, and-

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- [Charles] Wow.

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- We're just trying to keep 
our heads above water here.

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- (laughs) Well, 
I've heard you say

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you kinda tied yourself 
to the mast here.

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- [Anne] Mm-hmm.

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- Tell me what you 
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- Yeah.

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- How does it work?

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- I have taken a very 
meandering path in life,

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and I've, you know, 
faced a lot of struggles

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that I've tried to kind of 
reel it in a little bit.

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And basically what 
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is the product of 35 
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what always kind of felt 
a little bit broken.

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And in that, everything 
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serves a purpose,

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that maybe some other 
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of one day having a farm,

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or dreamed of one day 
becoming a woodworker.

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But for me it was more 
just, what could I do

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that will help me to show 
up to be the kind of person

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that I want to be?

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And suddenly I found myself 
on a farm, as a woodworker,

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doing some blacksmithing 
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and then tinkering on old cars

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and other things 
in my spare time,

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whatever that looks 
like. (laughs)

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- Well, that begs the question,

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what kind of person 
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- Oh, wow, this is deeper 
than I expected to go.

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I wanna be, I mean, I 
wanna be a good person.

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I wanna be a upstanding 
member of my community.

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I wanna be the kind of 
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when they get stuck.

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I wanna be the kind of person

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who shows up for the 
people that I care about.

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I want to work hard 
and be a good steward

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of the time and the resources 
that I've been given.

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And when I die, I wanna 
say, "Yep, I did it all."

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- Well, you're well 
on the path to that

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because there's so many people

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that like to live vicariously

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through watching you 
turn your compost,

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and watching you assign 
the pigs to a task

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that they can do for you.

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And so this really 
fits in with the growth

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and development 
that you had planned

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for Anne of All Trades.

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- I think a decade ago when 
all this kind of started,

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I was just bouncing

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to whatever next thing 
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I was never gonna 
be good at anything.

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And at the moment, that 
really, really hurt,

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but I think mostly because 
I realized it was true.

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I decided I was 
gonna stop bouncing,

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and I had to figure out a way 
to make that actually work

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for who I really was.

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And in that I decided 
for the rest of my life,

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I am going to pursue becoming 
a truly excellent woodworker.

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And to get to that, I need 
some external stimuli.

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And so I milk a cow every day,

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not because I love 
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which it turns out,

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now that I have 
a milk cow, I do,

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but really because I need 
my butt to be in a seat

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by a certain time 
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and I know that an alarm 
clock didn't do that,

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a planner didn't do that.

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But knowing that my 
cow will get mastitis

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if I am an hour late,

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and knowing that she's 
out there waiting on me,

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and knowing that I love her

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and I don't wanna let her down,

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I'm out there every morning,

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and getting my butt in that seat

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helps me to get my butt 
in my seat for my job,

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by the time that I need 
to do that every day too.

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all of these external 
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that help me to do 
the next right thing.

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- Well, you are 
tied to the mast,

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just like being tied 
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and organic clock 
of the homestead.

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- Yeah, I mean, I 
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are really similar people.

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I think we've had really 
similar struggles in life,

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and there's a lot of stuff going 
around now that's like, oh,

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you know, all of a 
sudden people have

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all of these nameable 
ailments and things.

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And the reality is, I 
think, a hundred years ago,

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these were all things 
that everyone had to do.

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There was no real choice in it.

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It was like, you 
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we need to do these things.

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And a lot of those 
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moving our bodies 
very intentionally.

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We had to actually 
exercise to get the things

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that we need out of the ground,

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out of the animals that we 
work with or whatever else.

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We had to chop firewood 
so that we had,

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we stayed warm in 
the wintertime.

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All those things kind of 
were just a given in life.

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And now they aren't,

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because we have 
modern conveniences

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and all these other things.

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And I will be the first to 
admit I love a hot shower.

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I love being able 
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in Taiwan and China, 
but I do really,

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but I have realized that 
for my own mental health,

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for my own wellbeing,

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the life that I live 
may not be for everyone,

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but it is the best life for me,

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because it forces me 
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and fully present in my life.

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- Well, how did that 
meandering path start?

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Where did it start?

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- It started about 12 
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my husband and I had 
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We were broke as a joke.

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We were getting most of our 
food from the food bank.

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"You know, I think I could 
plant a garden in our backyard."

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And I wanted, I had a 
garage for the first time.

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My parents are missionaries,

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so we didn't ever have, 
you know, a stable unit

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where I could have amassed

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a woodworking tool 
collection or anything else.

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So just being there in the 
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and being like, "Well, 
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in this garage if 
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I could put some seeds in 
the ground in the backyard."

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And then one thing 
led to another,

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and a lot of the 
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are known as gateway 
drugs into homesteading.

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You get a garden and 
then you get chickens,

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and then someone tells you 
it's a good idea to get goats.

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And then pretty soon 
you've gotta get a cow.

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And well, now here we are.

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- So everything's a next step.

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- You take the first step,

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but then after that, 
it's just developmental.

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Now you're an avid 
reader, researcher.

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- Oh yeah, now I am.

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I mean, when I was a kid, 
I'm severely dyslexic,

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so I didn't learn 
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and comprehend things 
until I was 22 years old.

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Incidentally, that's when 
we had just gotten married

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and had this house,

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and the house was across 
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And so I started 
going to the library.

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And as I was wanting to 
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this is before YouTube, this 
is before all that stuff.

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So I was like, "Oh, I 
don't know how to do that.

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I'll find a book 
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And I became a voracious reader.

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That first year, 
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on homesteading and woodworking,

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and within two years, I 
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every single book that the 
Seattle Metro System had

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on basically any of this stuff,

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and consumed as much 
of it as I could,

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because I was hooked.

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- Well, you've 
lived many places,

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being the part of a 
missionary family.

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- [Anne] Mm-hmm.

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- [Charles] Tell us about that.

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- Yeah, I went, we spent a lot 
of my young life in Ukraine,

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Czech Republic, Austria.

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I spent a lot of my 
young life in Asia.

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I speak fluent Chinese.

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That's one of the, you know,

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what do you not know 
about me kinda things.

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But all of that wandering 
kind of did leave me with a,

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"Someday, I wanna have one 
place that's there forever."

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And you know, when you've 
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you're kinda stuck there.

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And I don't think of 
it as being stuck.

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I think of it as, "Wow, I have 
a home for the first time."

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- You have a big 
laboratory. (laughs)

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- Oh, yeah, oh yeah.

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- And you get to mix 
the chemicals every day.

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- Yeah.

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- Yeah, well, what kind 
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have you jumped into?

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- Oh, I've done pretty much 
all of 'em at this point.

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But I started with, 
literally, I needed a bed.

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We didn't have the 
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and I was like,

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"Well, surely it's not 
that hard to build one."

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I grew up with, my grandfather 
was a great example in this.

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He was Mr. Use What You've Got 
to Get Where You Need to Go,

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and one of the things that I had

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as we were traveling 
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one things I had 
in the back of my,

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or one of the things I had 
in the back of my head was,

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"Someday I wanna have a place

250
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just like my grandpa's shop."

251
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He had a three-bay garage,

252
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and in one bay was 
the woodworking stuff,

253
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and in the middle bay was 
the metalworking stuff,

254
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and the other bay was 
the car working stuff,

255
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or the mechanical stuff.

256
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And I remember as 
a kid thinking,

257
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"Man, we can go in there and 
we can make anything we want.

258
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We can make any 
dream come true."

259
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And though my grandfather passed

260
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before he was able to share 
much of that knowledge with me,

261
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I carried that with me 
for the rest of my life,

262
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basically being like, "Someday 
I wanna have the space

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where I can make all 
the things that I need

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to make my life work."

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And so I started, my first wood 
shop was in my laundry room.

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- Wow.

267
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- And that's why I 
actually started,

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my focus was hand 
tool woodworking,

269
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because I didn't have 
space for a table saw

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or anything else 
for that matter.

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In fact, when I was 
building my first bookshelf,

272
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I had to climb over 
the workbench to get 
to the other side,

273
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because if the 
bookshelf was there,

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I didn't have. 
(donkey brays)

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Oh, my donkey's saying hello.

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(Charles laughs)

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He's conducting 
the little donkey-

278
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- There you go, the 
sounds of the farm.

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- Yeah, well, here we are.

280
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- Yeah. 
- It's everything,

281
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all the time, all at once.

282
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(Charles laughs)

283
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But that really led me to like,

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constantly wanting 
to challenge myself.

285
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And again, I wanted to 
spend the rest of my life

286
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pursuing one specific path,

287
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and in that I was like,

288
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"Okay, what's the next 
hardest project I could try,"

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which ultimately led me

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to the shop of Greg Pennington,

291
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who I think you also did 
an interview with him.

292
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And he taught me how to 
build Windsor chairs.

293
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And I was like, "You know what?

294
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This is kind of the culmination

295
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of everything a 
woodworker would do."

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And he was such a good teacher,

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that I was like, "I 
think I wanna do this."

298
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So now I'm building 
a woodworking school,

299
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well, the School of All Trades.

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We won't limit ourselves here.

301
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But yeah, that I think will be

302
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the ultimate culmination 
of everything is,

303
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one school where I can 
teach all the things

304
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that so many people like 
Greg have been so generous

305
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to teach me 
throughout the years.

306
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- So you've created a 
very shareable laboratory.

307
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- Oh yeah, I think one thing

308
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that tends to maybe 
even get in the way

309
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of some woodworkers 
is that it tends to be

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a very lonely pursuit.

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And I'm an introvert,

312
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just like a lot of 
other woodworkers are.

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But there is something 
very inspiring

314
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about announcing some of 
the things that you're doing

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or sharing some of the 
things you're doing.

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And so I didn't want woodworking

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to become a solo pursuit.

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Community is very 
important to me.

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And it turns out,

320
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having struggled with 
learning my whole life,

321
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I'm a really good teacher.

322
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And so I wanted to then take 
the things that I'd learned

323
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and teach them to other people,

324
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and make this place open 
to other people as well,

325
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so that this isn't 
a solitary pursuit.

326
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It's not a selfish endeavor.

327
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It's something that hopefully 
other people like me

328
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will come here and see

329
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how I've made things 
work for myself,

330
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and then leave feeling 
better equipped

331
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to do the things that 
they wanna do too.

332
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- Well, you've built 
lots of Windsor chairs-

333
00:14:01,966 --> 00:14:03,900
- Yeah. 
- In different styles.

334
00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:07,333
You've also built 
a mandolin, 'cause-

335
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- [Anne] Yeah.

336
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- [Charles] It's 
hanging over there,

337
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and I've seen it. 
- Yeah.

338
00:14:10,666 --> 00:14:12,233
- I was attracted to 
it when I came in.

339
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What are some other projects

340
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that you've been involved in?

341
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- Well, in 2020 I needed 
to raise a lot of money

342
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that had disappeared from 
prior work commitments

343
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for building the School 
of All Trades out there.

344
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And so I started doing a 
whole lot of spoon carving

345
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because a lot of people 
were stuck at home.

346
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A lot of people suddenly 
became interested in craft,

347
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and spoon carving seemed 
like a very good tool,

348
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or a very good vehicle

349
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to help people start 
learning how to do craft.

350
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And the fun thing 
about spoon carving

351
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is you only need to have 
a handful of tools, and,

352
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you'll actually learn everything

353
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that I have to unteach all 
of the power tool woodworkers

354
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that come to my classes,

355
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with regard to grain direction

356
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and wood movement 
and things like that.

357
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So you've got a really 
compact way to learn

358
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anything you wanna 
know about woodworking.

359
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But then also,

360
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people who aren't 
necessarily even attracted

361
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to the craft of woodworking

362
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would also be like 
interested in spoon carving

363
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because it's just a fun thing

364
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to think about 
whittling by the bonfire

365
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or making a kitchen implement

366
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for those cooks who 
are really interested

367
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in having handcrafted 
items and things like that.

368
00:15:23,333 --> 00:15:26,533
- Are you gonna show 
us how to carve a spoon

369
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or a kitchen utensil?

370
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- I would love to.

371
00:15:29,033 --> 00:15:30,533
- All right, can't wait.

372
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- Great.

373
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(whimsical old-time music)

374
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(whimsical old-time music)

375
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(whimsical old-time music ends)

376
00:15:51,766 --> 00:15:55,066
(folksy mandolin music)

377
00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,033
(folksy mandolin music)

378
00:16:15,300 --> 00:16:17,333
- Why Anne, you are 
gonna make a spoon

379
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out of what seems 
to be firewood.

380
00:16:20,066 --> 00:16:22,200
- That's basically 
exactly what it is.

381
00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:23,633
This is a cherry tree

382
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that just blew down in 
the last tornado here.

383
00:16:26,166 --> 00:16:27,433
We've got some walnut

384
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that we're in the midst 
of carving as well,

385
00:16:29,466 --> 00:16:31,400
and you know, just like,

386
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kind of just like 
our ancestors did,

387
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we wanna use whatever we've got

388
00:16:36,833 --> 00:16:38,233
to get where we 
wanna go in life.

389
00:16:38,233 --> 00:16:40,433
And these will be kitchen spoons

390
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that we can have in a bucket

391
00:16:41,700 --> 00:16:43,266
to give to our neighbors,

392
00:16:43,266 --> 00:16:45,766
to welcome new people 
to the neighborhood,

393
00:16:45,766 --> 00:16:49,600
to thank someone for 
helping me catch my cow,

394
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or whatever else.

395
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And I mean, 
(Charles laughs)

396
00:16:51,866 --> 00:16:53,666
I think everyone remembers

397
00:16:53,666 --> 00:16:55,133
their grandma's kitchen spoon

398
00:16:55,133 --> 00:16:56,866
for one reason or another.

399
00:16:56,866 --> 00:16:58,866
- Yeah, I think 
the back of my hand

400
00:16:58,866 --> 00:17:00,233
kind of remembers it.

401
00:17:00,233 --> 00:17:01,466
- Oh yeah.

402
00:17:01,466 --> 00:17:02,900
- Yeah, "Charles, 
don't go there," so-

403
00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:05,500
- But this is, I 
mean, this is one

404
00:17:05,500 --> 00:17:08,666
of my favorite things to 
like, this is very portable.

405
00:17:08,666 --> 00:17:11,200
I can take this kind of 
anywhere on the farm,

406
00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,533
(mallet taps) 
and, you know,

407
00:17:13,533 --> 00:17:16,000
turn as I'm watching the sunset

408
00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,933
or as I'm waiting for 
my cow to have a baby

409
00:17:17,933 --> 00:17:19,133
or whatever else.

410
00:17:19,133 --> 00:17:21,133
I can actually do 
something useful,

411
00:17:21,133 --> 00:17:24,133
with both my time 
and my anxious energy

412
00:17:24,133 --> 00:17:25,933
that I seem to have 
quite a lot of.

413
00:17:25,933 --> 00:17:28,966
- There you go, and 
looks like it has

414
00:17:30,033 --> 00:17:31,800
a lot of versatility, and,

415
00:17:32,966 --> 00:17:35,033
it has some safety 
features built in.

416
00:17:35,033 --> 00:17:37,966
- Oh yeah, so any time, I 
mean, we're both musicians.

417
00:17:37,966 --> 00:17:40,133
Any time you're using an ax 
this close to your hands,

418
00:17:40,133 --> 00:17:43,166
you want to know that 
you are really safe.

419
00:17:43,166 --> 00:17:45,366
And I really like this 
thing for a lot of reasons.

420
00:17:45,366 --> 00:17:46,600
I used to work on a stump

421
00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:48,833
that I had to bend over and use,

422
00:17:48,833 --> 00:17:50,466
and that, you 
know, hurt my back.

423
00:17:50,466 --> 00:17:52,900
This allows me to stand 
and be really close

424
00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:56,633
and be right above my work.

425
00:17:56,633 --> 00:17:59,500
But also, you know, there's 
a lot of things that are,

426
00:17:59,500 --> 00:18:02,133
I'm working on the 
opposite side of the stump.

427
00:18:02,133 --> 00:18:03,966
This is gonna catch 
the ax if it slips.

428
00:18:03,966 --> 00:18:05,500
- [Charles] Mm-hmm.

429
00:18:05,500 --> 00:18:08,000
- And then once we get into 
carving this little bit in here,

430
00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,566
we can then come 
around from this side,

431
00:18:10,566 --> 00:18:14,133
and swap our axes to the 
correct ax for that job.

432
00:18:14,133 --> 00:18:17,300
And we'll be able to come in 
and have two balance points.

433
00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:19,300
So we'll be able to, you know,

434
00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:21,533
not have to just be 
swinging our ax freely

435
00:18:21,533 --> 00:18:23,233
and hope that we don't flick-

436
00:18:23,233 --> 00:18:24,433
- Wow. 
- Flick the ax

437
00:18:24,433 --> 00:18:25,700
in the wood all in 
different places.

438
00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:27,533
And I can even just 
show you that right now.

439
00:18:27,533 --> 00:18:29,333
- [Charles] All right.

440
00:18:29,333 --> 00:18:33,200
- [Anne] So this is, sometimes 
you have to scooch it around,

441
00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:34,566
to be able to get 
to the next stop,

442
00:18:34,566 --> 00:18:36,000
the next spot.

443
00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,133
But, so here as I'm carving 
the back of the spoon,

444
00:18:38,133 --> 00:18:39,433
I'll come in here, 
(ax hammers)

445
00:18:39,433 --> 00:18:41,500
and you can see I've got 
two points of contact.

446
00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:43,133
And then also there's 
always something

447
00:18:43,133 --> 00:18:46,133
to catch the ax as 
the chips are flying.

448
00:18:46,133 --> 00:18:48,500
(ax hammers)

449
00:18:51,533 --> 00:18:52,400
Faster.

450
00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,266
(ax hammers quickly)

451
00:18:56,266 --> 00:18:57,866
And so from here,

452
00:18:57,866 --> 00:19:00,233
we're gonna do this 
Martha Stewart-style.

453
00:19:00,233 --> 00:19:03,133
But from here, we'll go to 
the next stage, which is,

454
00:19:03,133 --> 00:19:06,600
we have basically a 
roughed-out spoon like that.

455
00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:08,266
- Right, so the cooking show.

456
00:19:08,266 --> 00:19:09,633
- Exactly. 
- Yeah, there we go.

457
00:19:09,633 --> 00:19:12,900
- Yeah, we start drawing 
out the shape and we get,

458
00:19:14,166 --> 00:19:17,766
we get the interior 
shape kind of defined.

459
00:19:17,766 --> 00:19:19,100
Then we come here and we've got,

460
00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:21,066
we start carving 
out the middle bits.

461
00:19:21,066 --> 00:19:23,933
- How do you shape 
the bowl of the spoon?

462
00:19:23,933 --> 00:19:26,466
- [Anne] That is an 
excellent question.

463
00:19:26,466 --> 00:19:29,700
- Yeah, I should see if I 
could make a spoon out of this.

464
00:19:29,700 --> 00:19:31,933
And when my grandkids come over,

465
00:19:31,933 --> 00:19:33,966
- Oh, listen. 
- I could practice on 'em.

466
00:19:33,966 --> 00:19:35,000
Yeah. 
- You should.

467
00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,466
You absolutely should.

468
00:19:36,466 --> 00:19:37,900
(Charles laughs)

469
00:19:37,900 --> 00:19:40,700
So depending on how 
confident you are with an ax,

470
00:19:40,700 --> 00:19:43,600
you can actually also use 
what's called an adze,

471
00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,566
to start your spoon.

472
00:19:45,566 --> 00:19:47,833
You can use this tool to come in

473
00:19:47,833 --> 00:19:50,833
and you carve out the 
center a little bit.

474
00:19:50,833 --> 00:19:52,466
(adze taps) 
And that's, again,

475
00:19:52,466 --> 00:19:53,566
if you're pretty confident,

476
00:19:53,566 --> 00:19:54,866
but you have to 
be pretty careful,

477
00:19:54,866 --> 00:19:56,166
because one thing that you learn

478
00:19:56,166 --> 00:19:57,900
really quickly in spoon carving

479
00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:00,566
is what's gonna 
happen to the grain,

480
00:20:00,566 --> 00:20:02,733
that we have the opportunity 
to come at things

481
00:20:02,733 --> 00:20:04,900
from a lot of different angles.

482
00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:08,300
And again, if you can use 
a lot more carefulness

483
00:20:08,300 --> 00:20:10,533
(adze taps) 
as you're doing this part,

484
00:20:10,533 --> 00:20:13,133
you can get away with getting 
rid of a lot of that there.

485
00:20:13,133 --> 00:20:17,300
After we've got this chunked 
out to about this stage,

486
00:20:17,300 --> 00:20:19,100
most people will come in

487
00:20:19,100 --> 00:20:21,900
and, you know, just kind 
of refine their design

488
00:20:21,900 --> 00:20:23,200
a little bit, which 
is what I'm gonna do.

489
00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:27,233
I want this to look a 
little bit like an egg.

490
00:20:27,233 --> 00:20:28,033
We'll get that.

491
00:20:29,533 --> 00:20:33,100
And then we're gonna start using 
a tool called a hook knife.

492
00:20:33,100 --> 00:20:35,166
A hook knife is exactly 
what it sounds like.

493
00:20:35,166 --> 00:20:37,000
It's a knife that's 
shaped like a hook.

494
00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,366
And we have lots 
of different ways

495
00:20:40,366 --> 00:20:41,433
that we can use this knife,

496
00:20:41,433 --> 00:20:43,533
but I will tell you the one way

497
00:20:43,533 --> 00:20:46,400
every single person cuts 
themselves with this knife

498
00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,433
is because if you use it the way

499
00:20:48,433 --> 00:20:52,000
you would intuitively use 
it, you go right up here

500
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,566
and you go right into 
the flesh of your thumb.

501
00:20:53,566 --> 00:20:58,500
So there is a little 
bit of anti logic

502
00:20:59,900 --> 00:21:01,800
that goes into using this 
tool in a safe manner.

503
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:03,300
But you might actually notice

504
00:21:03,300 --> 00:21:05,766
that I'm moving the piece of 
wood along with the knife.

505
00:21:05,766 --> 00:21:09,533
And so I've got my thumb 
safely tucked back behind here,

506
00:21:09,533 --> 00:21:12,433
and I'm actually gonna 
start removing the material

507
00:21:12,433 --> 00:21:14,033
from the inside of the spoon

508
00:21:14,033 --> 00:21:15,433
in kind of a circular pattern.

509
00:21:15,433 --> 00:21:18,366
So I almost like 
to draw that out.

510
00:21:19,566 --> 00:21:21,933
I think about the 
spoon in four sections.

511
00:21:23,366 --> 00:21:26,966
So we've got one, 
two, three, four.

512
00:21:26,966 --> 00:21:28,433
And each one of those sections,

513
00:21:28,433 --> 00:21:31,933
as you start carving 
downwards, you're going to,

514
00:21:31,933 --> 00:21:33,733
the grain of the wood is 
gonna change direction.

515
00:21:33,733 --> 00:21:37,633
So we're gonna actually wanna 
move our knife like this.

516
00:21:38,966 --> 00:21:40,833
And like when we're 
carving in that quadrant,

517
00:21:40,833 --> 00:21:42,533
we're gonna move 
our knife that way.

518
00:21:42,533 --> 00:21:43,700
When we're in this quadrant,

519
00:21:43,700 --> 00:21:46,033
we're gonna move 
our knife that way,

520
00:21:46,033 --> 00:21:48,633
and then that way, 
and then that way.

521
00:21:48,633 --> 00:21:51,166
And I'll just show you what 
that looks like really quick.

522
00:21:53,100 --> 00:21:57,533
So here, we've got this 
and we've got our thumb

523
00:21:57,533 --> 00:22:02,400
safely anchored back behind 
the cutting edge there.

524
00:22:03,766 --> 00:22:08,066
We'll come in and we'll take 
little chunks like this,

525
00:22:09,266 --> 00:22:11,233
and then, and then 
we'll come down here

526
00:22:11,233 --> 00:22:14,000
and we'll use leverage to 
our advantage here as well.

527
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:19,000
We'll go, I'm hinging on 
my own fingers there, and,

528
00:22:22,166 --> 00:22:23,666
one thing, when you're 
holding a knife,

529
00:22:23,666 --> 00:22:26,066
you always wanna have it on 
some sort of hinge point.

530
00:22:26,066 --> 00:22:29,700
So this hand is never 
freely swinging the blade,

531
00:22:29,700 --> 00:22:31,133
any one place.

532
00:22:31,133 --> 00:22:35,100
So when it's here, it's 
hinging on the piece of wood.

533
00:22:35,100 --> 00:22:37,466
When it's here, 
it's hinging here.

534
00:22:38,833 --> 00:22:42,100
And that keeps this thing 
from ever wandering away

535
00:22:42,100 --> 00:22:43,900
and doing anything unexpected.

536
00:22:43,900 --> 00:22:47,666
But basically we whittle that 
out of the center bit there,

537
00:22:47,666 --> 00:22:50,700
and we can come back and 
we'll take the center.

538
00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:52,333
This piece of wood 
got a little dry

539
00:22:52,333 --> 00:22:54,633
in between our 
carving times here.

540
00:22:54,633 --> 00:22:58,000
I actually am just 
recovering from an injury,

541
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,200
a knife injury, but 
hilariously not from carving,

542
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:01,766
because we know how 
to carve safely.

543
00:23:01,766 --> 00:23:03,633
It was a kitchen knife injury.

544
00:23:04,866 --> 00:23:07,433
And well, you know, 
sometimes those happen.

545
00:23:07,433 --> 00:23:08,966
But there's also another tool

546
00:23:08,966 --> 00:23:10,733
that I actually really 
like to use at this point.

547
00:23:10,733 --> 00:23:13,866
And it's called, now this one 
is a real pain to sharpen.

548
00:23:13,866 --> 00:23:16,000
So I never let anyone 
borrow that one.

549
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,633
But I like this one because 
I teach a lot of classes.

550
00:23:18,633 --> 00:23:21,566
So I have to show people how 
to do a lot of these things,

551
00:23:21,566 --> 00:23:23,666
both left and right-handed.

552
00:23:23,666 --> 00:23:25,200
And I kept having a problem

553
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:26,733
with grabbing the 
left-handed knife

554
00:23:26,733 --> 00:23:28,300
and trying to use it 
with my right hand,

555
00:23:28,300 --> 00:23:30,566
and then realizing the cutting 
edge was on the other side.

556
00:23:30,566 --> 00:23:32,300
So this saves me a 
lot of that stuff.

557
00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:37,266
It also allows me 
the opportunity to 
use my other hand,

558
00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:40,400
even in situations where 
I normally wouldn't,

559
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,733
move on to the hook 
or the crook knife.

560
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,000
- By hook or by crook.

561
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,533
- That's right, and 
then same exact,

562
00:23:49,533 --> 00:23:51,000
there's that potato peeler-

563
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,400
- Oh yeah. 
- Cut again.

564
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,533
- Yeah. 
- And we'll, we can use this

565
00:23:55,533 --> 00:23:56,933
the exact same way.

566
00:23:56,933 --> 00:23:59,666
This is actually the 
exact same knife as this.

567
00:24:00,666 --> 00:24:02,733
It's just been turned on a hook.

568
00:24:02,733 --> 00:24:05,066
And so we can come in here now,

569
00:24:05,066 --> 00:24:10,033
and do that exact 
same action there,

570
00:24:11,333 --> 00:24:13,733
as we ride that 
bevel on the inside.

571
00:24:13,733 --> 00:24:16,633
And riding that bevel is 
exactly what we need to do

572
00:24:16,633 --> 00:24:20,066
to be able to have a nice smooth 
surface on the inside too.

573
00:24:20,066 --> 00:24:21,566
'Cause I think a lot of people,

574
00:24:21,566 --> 00:24:22,533
when they're first getting 
started with spoon carving,

575
00:24:22,533 --> 00:24:23,866
the inside of their spoon

576
00:24:23,866 --> 00:24:25,933
looks like someone 
took a hatchet to it.

577
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,166
- Well that is really 
something to aspire to.

578
00:24:31,166 --> 00:24:32,666
- Yeah, it's so fun. 
- Beautiful work.

579
00:24:32,666 --> 00:24:33,933
- It's worth it.

580
00:24:33,933 --> 00:24:36,266
All right, Charles, 
I'm gonna send you home

581
00:24:36,266 --> 00:24:38,300
with a little bit of homework.

582
00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:39,300
- All right. 
- You take that

583
00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:40,533
piece of firewood,

584
00:24:40,533 --> 00:24:42,500
and you turn it into 
something awesome.

585
00:24:42,500 --> 00:24:46,733
- This into a beautiful 
spoon like this.

586
00:24:46,733 --> 00:24:47,966
I can't wait to try.

587
00:24:47,966 --> 00:24:49,266
- I'm so excited.

588
00:24:49,266 --> 00:24:53,066
- And you taught me all 
the steps, beautiful.

589
00:24:53,066 --> 00:24:54,066
Thank you, Anne.

590
00:24:54,066 --> 00:24:55,633
- Yeah, we'll see you again.

591
00:24:56,866 --> 00:24:58,433
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