about you but i don't do whole lot
uh i don't do a whole lot mostly i you know
build stuff around the house uh kinds of things uh
oh yeah
yeah
what what have you done
that's
um not too much put some chairs and cabinets and stuff back together and you know some book shelves and
you know junk like that a little rack to hold the maps and you know mail stuff you know the uh stamps and all that kind of junk in to go hang in the kitchen
yeah
right
well that's cool
i used to do quite a bit when i was a little kid but um recently i haven't done much at all i i did
uh i a while back i started refurbishing a piano we've had in our in our family for a long time it's an old antique upright
oh
and uh kind of started to do some work with and stuff
sounds like a big project
uh yeah it is and i really haven't had time to do much with it
um it's a nice piano but it's just uh it's like uh like the intro said if you had more time and more tools you know
but uh other than that i i haven't done a whole lot i did kind of make a coffee table out of a piano bench which was interesting
uh-huh
um and that worked out pretty well i actually gave that to a friend of mine since i really didn't have much use for it but uh
so you you got your house then work out
uh no we're renting a townhouse
um so we're just and i just kind of had to have some kind of piddling to do all the time
sure is that what you consider a hobby then for you
excuse me
would that would you consider that a hobby then
um i guess sort of it mainly just you know i've all kind of have something all the time
yeah yeah for me i don't know it's
my brother is a is a contractor and he actually does quite a bit of carpentry and wood work
uh-huh
so i don't see him very often but last time i did we did some stuff he uh he had a job where he's putting in tongue and grooves slaps for a a ceiling actually
and so i i helped him do some of that and uh
uh-huh
and like that but aside from that i'm a i'm a student at the University of Central Florida
uh-huh oh that sounds good
aside from my classes i don't do a lot of uh
of woodworking per say i've got a lot of other hobbies but not necessarily that so
yeah i i guess it's kind of depends what your how loose your definition of woodworking is most of the stuff i do is not you know carving or anything like that it's mostly you know sawing stuff you know gluing putting things together that sort of stuff
right
i actually would like to do more of it though i kind of get into it it's it's fun to get started on something you know and and actually have a project that you're working on you know
yeah it's a lot of fun to have something that you're doing and uh you know it's when you're done with it there something there too
right you you've actually created something and had input into it
yeah
and also it's it i don't know i don't know about you but it's kind of neat to see something that you can create out wood you know it's like woe
yeah uh-huh
didn't know you could do that
but uh and also some of the the little tools and and techniques that that carpenters use um my girlfriend's father is also is also a contractor in terms of carpentry and stuff
um-hum
and he'd made her bed and i was actually taking a look at it and some of the stuff uh you could see the techniques that he used to reinforce uh the braces and things like that
they're really pretty ingenious and
i hadn't seen them anywhere else there were some some um timing Bruce slots there and some things some particular methods that he'd used
um which were kind of neat and he's Vietnamese so i'm wondering if if maybe the cultural difference made a made a difference in the way he worked at
yeah
um i didn't ask him about it but i
could be uh and seems like of uh stuff that people make with wood
you know up until a couple of hundred years ago you didn't have a a abundance of iron or steel to join them together with
right
yeah they had to kind of use some uh some different renovative kind of techniques to do that with
yeah
where do you where do you live again
uh the Washington DC area
okay so i'm thinking that's primarily pine trees for the most part in that area
uh not too bad it's about i guess half and a half pine trees and various hard woods of you know
i'm thinking if you were to do something what kind of wood would you most likely use over there
and i guess uh really you can get any any wood that's available but i'm thinking in terms of cost pine pine would probably be cheapest there
yeah
yeah pine or possibly oak maybe but pine definitely
yeah oak is a lot better i think
yeah yeah making pine seems hardly worth it because it's so soft yeah yeah
it's real soft and and kind of pliable and that's that's not real good but uh
it's easy to work with but usually it doesn't last because it comes apart
yeah i used to live in a before i moved up to Minneapolis i i lived in a a duplex in Orlando
and uh that had some work that had to be done with it some of the the door frames and things and uh i did a little bit of that and that was kind of interesting too kind of fun
um-hum
but uh for the most part down there it's it's once again it's pine or oak
