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Wooden Wonders / "Carving Out a Passion"

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so if i get you just to say your name

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the name of your shop

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and where your shop's located my name's

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chris gerald trotter

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and my shop's the wooden wonders and uh

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it's located in nashville indiana

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i'm a carpenter slash carver when you're

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doing

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finished crumbs you're learning what you

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have to take out like a negative

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of what the shape is you're figuring out

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what that's going to be and you're

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cutting that away

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so your mind kind of gets used to that

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idea you know

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kind of like an exercise that you can

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build over time

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with the trim carpentry i'd have left

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over an oil pose so at home i just

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started

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trying to start shaping it with the

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drain it just kind of you know i got my

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own little

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carving bug you know i thought man i'm

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starting to figure this out so i just

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got home and i just started messing with

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it the first thing i made was like a dog

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after that i mean i was just kind of

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every day i just tried to do something

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i mean you could pretty much use

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anything white pine won't last as long

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i mean if somebody's asking for

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something expensive then i'm gonna do it

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and some

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i mean i use hardwoods the most because

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they're prettier

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a lot of times during recessions and

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depressions

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a lot of inspiration comes out in 07

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when the housing market

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the crash you know there was really no

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sense in doing any

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i couldn't even really have there were

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no houses to even

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build so i just opened the shop during

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the national week

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because up until that point i was really

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good at it and i did a lot but i

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wouldn't really try to make money off of

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it

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it's almost like god's just like guiding

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you your hand

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it's like one day you might be like

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right on fire and your vision just kind

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of opens up for you

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you're not a man you're sitting there

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you're listening to music and all of a

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sudden you just

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it's like thank you jesus thank you for

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giving me this ability that's all i can

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say i mean i don't even know how i'm

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doing it

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if you take time off you regress you

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know so life's hard you know you got

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kids you got

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all this stuff going on throwing at you

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every time that you

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have to take time off you're not doing

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it you gotta battle back in there the

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next day

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you might lose it all again and you

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might not even get it back for three

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months

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unless you're doing it every day and all

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of a sudden you get it again

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because the more you go the better you

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get

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[Music]

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i mean you just gotta believe yourself

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you know i mean it's like once you

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get this far you're like you make sure

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you

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you grab hold of everything that you're

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learning

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and bring it with you

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i'm doing more expensive carbon down to

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so i've done 14 foot owls i've done

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14 foot wine bottles mickey and the

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beanstalk

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like 20 foot high with a beanstalk going

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up

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babe ruth swinging you know home run

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we've done

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carvings for a woman that had breast

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cancer and she wanted a carving out in

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front of her house

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it was just some flowers going around

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the tree

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some vines i think we put a couple birds

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in there and then

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just the big ribbon on the front of it

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representing breast cancer

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a lot of times we'll do a really big

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carving and then a few minutes later

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we'll find out

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the guy that the woman that had his

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carbon and passed away

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the significant other just totally like

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it just does send to

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the carving it was just like so special

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to them you know so

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things like that are really fulfilling

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you know

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it's it's totally relaxing to me i can

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influence

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people you know i can put a smile on

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someone or

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you know just generally influencing them

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emotionally through things

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and being able to make

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you know a statement you know what i

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mean being able to

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leave my mark

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this is my passion you know who knows

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i'm

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if if the carpentry would have kept

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going well then i may never

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have ever found this realm

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that i found you know so sometimes like

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i said it takes

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a dip in your life to find you know what

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you're really supposed to be doing right

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you

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