do any woodworking at all
yes as a matter of fact i do i uh i i took a lot of shop classes when i was in junior high and high school
oh great
and uh had a had a lot of fun in it i i made uh
a table with a shelf underneath that goes that's for my room and uh
oh how nice
stereo cabinets and all kinds of stuff
oh
wow you do do a lot do you have your own tools or do you have some
yeah my my dad has uh let's see a
a radial arm saw and all that kind of stuff out in the garage that that i use once in a while now i don't have a lot of time for that kind of thing any more but
uh-huh
uh-huh
whenever he needs a help hand doing something that he's making then i go out there and help him
oh that's nice so do you um what kind of wood do you use usually the pine or
uh it depends on the project really uh
oh
i think i made my stereo cabinet out of pine
uh-huh
um something my dad's been he made my grandmother a jewelry box and he made that out of poplar
oh
oh how neat
yeah uh
so he's done he's done wood projects too
yeah i i i think
my my involvement in in school got him in that
oh
hold on for just one second
okay
okay
oh well that's that's good So do you stain them and all that yourself when you're finished with them
yeah yeah there's
just about everything i make is either it's either stained or
oh uh-huh
that definitely is a real if you like the color of the wood it's real nice to just put on that clear finish coat that keeps it sealed up and
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oh
looks nice
oh well that's interesting i i've always been interested in woodworking i
the type i do is a little bit different but i after the projects are done i like to paint them and um you know make different types of
yeah
oh i just finished some Christmas decorations a friend's husband cut cut them out for us and then we you know got together and painted them
yeah
and um he does you know he makes the shelves to hang on your wall or he makes bookshelves or corner cupboards and i think it's fascinating i i really think it's
if you have the tools yeah i think you'd have to have the tools to make it
yeah it's
it's a lot of fun as long you
you got the right tools and everything
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oh do you so you don't have much time for it though even though you
you have access to the tools now
yeah yeah right i haven't done anything on my own for about six years now
uh
well now do you follow a pattern or do you just kind of
uh
start measuring and cutting or
if if you're if if you start to make something you have to like basically draw draw the design of whatever it is you want
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and and determine the the measurements uh of everything
oh
and then
make sure that that make sure that that what you put on paper will work and then put it to wood
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oh do you save a lot of money rather than buying the finished project
yeah you you really you can save a whole a a a lot of money
oh
you can go to a like a a furniture shop and a stereo cabinet like i built only a lot smaller would cost you probably in the neighborhood of forty to fifty dollars
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oh
i think i spent
a total of maybe fifteen to twenty
oh wow that is a big difference
yeah
and and had wood left over and you know to use for other other things
oh wow
oh that is a
and it and it and i and i got my when i made it it's made to the specifications that i wanted because i have an oversize stereo
um-hum
um-hum
that wouldn't fit in most newer stereo cabinets because they make all those
uh-huh so you got what you want besides getting it for a better price and
yeah they make all those smaller components and this is a stereo that i've had since
i think about nineteen eighty
oh
so
oh well that's great how do
that that kind of thing works out to your advantage as well you can make it to to fit your design instead of whatever they give you
right huh so you've made the a stereo cabinet and what else did you say
uh i've made a it's a it's a table that has a shelf underneath
oh
uh i've made a it it's supposed to be a
uh old style lamp holder you know like oil lamp holder
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oh oh how neat
with a with a mirror in the back of it but i don't have a lamp to put in it
oh
so i just use it as a mirror in my room
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uh
huh well that's interesting i i like a lot of the old-fashioned type furniture the washbasin type things and i guess you could make that
yeah
now where you don't find those in the stores to buy very often you can make the kind of
right
things that you want have you ever made any type of chair
no i i never dove into the chairs it
i wonder if they would be a harder type project would it
um it depends on how intricate the the the design is and whether or not you're going to
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