As I have said to Anne in a comment on one of her videos, I am so pleased to see women demonstrating that woodworking is not just for men. You two are so very talented and so much fun to watch. My daughters can watch your videos and see that women can achieve just as much as we men, while having fun and being feminine.
April, not sure if I have told you yet, but I love your channel, as a guy I appreciate your skill as a wood worker, and as a father I appreciate that you don't try to use your body to sell your product. You let your skills speak for themselves and do it in a classy way. THANK YOU.
April, You are in a sweet spot of you life. RIDE it for all it's worth. Remain inspired and unafraid. If you were my daughter I would be immensely proud. Thanks for bringing us along on your journey. Best, David Reading
Traditional carpentry joints are beautiful...I have been watching you for several years and you are developing beautifully ... I greet you warmly April :)
Love your videos April....but I think this one is truly one of the best....the warmth of your experience sharing it with talented good friends came through loud and clear! Keep up the great work!
Hello Ms April. Root beer used to be made from sassafras until about 1960. The sassafras was causing liver damage, so it was stopped being used for root beer. Sassparilla and other things are mainly used for root beer now. Nice work on the stool. Best regards.
April, been watching you for years this is the best craft I've seen you make it's beautiful. I watched video with Anne of all trades. I'm glad you two are friends because I get to both of you together every now and then.
Her work is ridiculous. I could see a custom gun maker paying her a lot to decorate a high dollar weapon. If she does more woodwork, she could produce a drool worthy rifle.
That was one hot workshop for the few days April and friends were there. Not because of the awesome tools or great workshop layout. It was a hot workshop because of those three super awesome, and beautiful MAKERS.
Sassafras trees bring back so many memories. In middle school we had to do leaf collections for school and they grow plentiful here in Indiana. I remember collecting leaves for the project and sassafras was one of my favorites because they smell spicy :) Years later I got to share the same experience as I helped my son with his collection. The chair is beautiful and will make a great shop chair!!
That stool is on point girl, beautiful in form and color scheme. Being from Texas I can't believe you never had a sip of Sassafras tea, but it mostly grows on the East side of the state. We used to dig the roots up and then they were boiled into a very spicy tea that honey or sugar was added to sweeten. Good stuff and yes was used to make Root Beer back in the day. It is a hard wood to work but much like Osage Orange and Mulberry (also Texas natives) very much worth it do to the shear beauty of the wood.
I climb sassafras trees as a child, but they were small, not more than 6 inches in diameter. Chewed the bark on the roots that people still used to make sassafras tea. Loved the video, When I retire, I want to make that type stool & your stool in plans also.
Someone beat me to the origins of sassafras. You and Anne ooze the joy you have for wood and sharing that joy with us. Thanks to you both and best of luck in the future
Beautiful, as usual, the stool is great too !! Sassafras root, for sassafras tea !! Hopefully, you can adapt some of these new tools and techniques to your talented repertoire. It is always nice to learn new things that can aid in creating your works of art. You are very blessed, not only with YOUR talent, but the talented people we get to see you work with, keep up the fantastic work AND the camaraderie !!!
Nice stool. Lots of sassafras in Indiana, it's what root beer is made from. Lots of walnut too. The stool turned out absolutely beautiful, nicely done.
Love this! My Tennessee is magical! I could see all 3 of you moving here having shops and farms! You would have lots of customers ! All 3 of you are very easy on the eyes! That means purdy in TN.
COOL!! Dunno how you are able to to turn work into a social event and really cool memory, AND make us feel like we are right there with ya, but so glad you do. Thank you!
@4:30, my grandmaw gave each grandchild (over 30 of them) a small chair(like that one) for their first birthday. I still have mine. It’s precious to me.
Another great video. Here in East Tennessee, there’s a lot woodworkers hidden in the mountains and hollers. Plus, I can’t even begin to tell you how many guitar, banjo, mandolin, and other stringed instrument craftsman there are scattered about. Thanks for sharing your experience!
Great video April!! I have been building windsor chairs for awhile now after being taught by Gregs teacher, Curtis Buchanan, another really really great guy, and incidentally, the original designer of the democratic chair. Looks like you gals had a ton of fun, and that's what it's all about. Cheers!
Another great video.The tips for drilling angles are awesome. Your 3 leg stool is beautiful. Keep the great videos coming. And congrats on the million mark, that has to be very gratifying to know that so many people enjoy your channel.
What an awesome experience to be taught my a master!! I love the complex form of the seat. Great job April. Happy Holidays to you, the family, and those chickens 🐓
So glad I came across this. Building my first 3 legged stool and looking for ideas. Love the facets on the legs. Although I prefer the look of 2 stretchers, I think with a contoured seat I’d run 3 so the my feet have a somewhere to rest. 👍
John Solar 283 ™ ...In the early 60s, on a Boy Scout jamboree in PA, we’re taught how to ID the Sassafras, dig up it’s roots and make the tea. It was a great time! 👩🌾
Hey April, you did a super good job on building the three legged stool. It really turned out awesome. AND you picked up another favorite word “SASSAFRAS “ oh and spicy.🤗 Thanks for sharing with us.
With this video, you really set the bar to a new level. The production quality of it is noticeably better. The light background music really adds a lot. Well done! :)
Looks like you all had a ton of fun. The perch looks great! Thanks for including Jenny's IG link. I was looking for it after watching Anne's video. Thanks for sharing!
Ohhhh my gosh, this turned out beautifully! Wood is amazing! I grew up watching my dad hand plane and carve in his wood shop. He made some of the most beautiful furniture. I'm guessing that's where I got my desire to start building stuff, first being the small coop of yours. I'm almost done with it! I can't wait to get more practice and experience with wood so I can start making wood projects with different types of wood. Like mahogany, cherry, oak.... gahhh! I can't wait!!!! I want to try to make a butcher block for my first mixed "fancy" wood project. Also, I just wanted to say how stinking much I LOVE your channel. I have watched other wood working channels but there is something pretty darn cool about a female wood worker. One day I hope to gain enough experience to build some of the beautifl stuff you've built.
I recently had the pleasure of working with some sassafras for a client and it indeed had a "spicy" perfume and worked nicely. I hope I have the opportunity to use it again. That stool is great, BTW. Very nice work!
There is something so satisfying and relaxing about your videos, absolutely wait for your bell to ring. Thanks so much for your time spent videoing and making stuff, what a great piece of art you have made. Thanks Again for all that you do.
April, I believe this has been one of you best videos! The quality of sharp details shown are awesome! I love watching your videos and learn something from every singe one of them. As I have told you before, you make amazing projects and videos. Merry Christmas from a fellow Texan!!
Wow that class looks amazing, all the tools and wood. I love how you narrate and your personality is so bright. I would definitely build one of these chairs if I could. I like the faceting and the Democratic chair too
Hello Ms. Wilkerson. I just watched your video making the walnut/sassafras stool. You are a very good host and I hope you have continued success in your woodworking. When you reach a journeyman level I bet you would make a great teacher so I will,continue to wait watch for your next project. Best Regards and happy holidays Fred Thomas in Skokie IL.
I’ve never seen a sassafras tree that was big enough to build furniture out of. Mawmaw would dig their roots to make root beer. Beautiful construction.
I enjoyed watching the stool being constructed; it turned out beautiful BTW... and I saw some pretty clever and interesting tricks for orienting, finding centers, etc. - could you make a future video on some of those techniques it would be so awesome to learn so we can apply them in our woodworking.
Your stool or chair, whichever you may refer to it as, turned out beautifully. I really look forward to seeing future hand tool videos from you. Now to start the collection of tools lol.
As I have said to Anne in a comment on one of her videos, I am so pleased to see women demonstrating that woodworking is not just for men. You two are so very talented and so much fun to watch. My daughters can watch your videos and see that women can achieve just as much as we men, while having fun and being feminine.
April, not sure if I have told you yet, but I love your channel, as a guy I appreciate your skill as a wood worker, and as a father I appreciate that you don't try to use your body to sell your product. You let your skills speak for themselves and do it in a classy way. THANK YOU.
April,
You are in a sweet spot of you life. RIDE it for all it's worth. Remain inspired and unafraid. If you were my daughter I would be immensely proud.
Thanks for bringing us along on your journey.
Best, David Reading
The old 'twist the rubber band/string to find center' trick. Nice.
April, this is the 'art' of wood working. You and your friends compliment the effort quite well.
They absolutely do love seeing builds like this one !
I love how Greg combines the use of traditional hand tools with high tech stuff like the intersecting laser levels!
Traditional carpentry joints are beautiful...I have been watching you for several years and you are developing beautifully ... I greet you warmly April :)
Wow!!!! What a woodshop and video. You girls are not woodworkers, you are artisans!😊😊😊
Very nice project April. Cool to see something built with only hand tools. Something about that just seems soothing and right with the world !
April, I have watched every video you hav made, I think this is the most challenging piece you have made, congratulations
Love your videos April....but I think this one is truly one of the best....the warmth of your experience sharing it with talented good friends came through loud and clear! Keep up the great work!
April, the joyful look on your face is priceless. The wood you chose is breathtaking together.
Hello Ms April. Root beer used to be made from sassafras until about 1960. The sassafras was causing liver damage, so it was stopped being used for root beer. Sassparilla and other things are mainly used for root beer now. Nice work on the stool. Best regards.
April, been watching you for years this is the best craft I've seen you make it's beautiful. I watched video with Anne of all trades. I'm glad you two are friends because I get to both of you together every now and then.
Congratulations on the 1 million subscribers.
Yup, way to go, April! 🎉🥂😃
I just love you April, you’re so entertaining to watch and I love your sense of humor!! Thanks for your hard work and sharing with us scrubs
You are so welcome! Thank you for your kind words. And thanks for watching.
Who wants Jenny to start a channel give a like!
She has a site
Her work is ridiculous. I could see a custom gun maker paying her a lot to decorate a high dollar weapon. If she does more woodwork, she could produce a drool worthy rifle.
@@Grunt49 o
can we just acknowledge the AMAZING cinematography in this video! I could watch this on replay ALL DAY!
Perhaps her best video so far. Congrats, April. Job well done.
That was one hot workshop for the few days April and friends were there. Not because of the awesome tools or great workshop layout. It was a hot workshop because of those three super awesome, and beautiful MAKERS.
Sassafras trees bring back so many memories. In middle school we had to do leaf collections for school and they grow plentiful here in Indiana. I remember collecting leaves for the project and sassafras was one of my favorites because they smell spicy :) Years later I got to share the same experience as I helped my son with his collection. The chair is beautiful and will make a great shop chair!!
That stool is on point girl, beautiful in form and color scheme. Being from Texas I can't believe you never had a sip of Sassafras tea, but it mostly grows on the East side of the state. We used to dig the roots up and then they were boiled into a very spicy tea that honey or sugar was added to sweeten. Good stuff and yes was used to make Root Beer back in the day. It is a hard wood to work but much like Osage Orange and Mulberry (also Texas natives) very much worth it do to the shear beauty of the wood.
I climb sassafras trees as a child, but they were small, not more than 6 inches in diameter.
Chewed the bark on the roots that people still used to make sassafras tea. Loved the video, When I retire, I want to make that type stool & your stool in plans also.
Sassafras tree roots are what traditionally was used to flavor rootbeer and the scent is reminiscent of that.
My Goodness!!!! So Amazing!!!! I like your videos anyway, but this at Greg's Shop was a treat! Brilliant and Beautifully Produced.
Someone beat me to the origins of sassafras. You and Anne ooze the joy you have for wood and sharing that joy with us. Thanks to you both and best of luck in the future
Beautiful, as usual, the stool is great too !! Sassafras root, for sassafras tea !! Hopefully, you can adapt some of these new tools and techniques to your talented repertoire. It is always nice to learn new things that can aid in creating your works of art.
You are very blessed, not only with YOUR talent, but the talented people we get to see you work with, keep up the fantastic work AND the camaraderie !!!
Nice stool. Lots of sassafras in Indiana, it's what root beer is made from. Lots of walnut too. The stool turned out absolutely beautiful, nicely done.
It’s so awesome to see your progression through the years. This thing is gorgeous, April!
Agreed it truly has been awesome to see your channel growth over the years keep it going !!
Love this! My Tennessee is magical! I could see all 3 of you moving here having shops and farms! You would have lots of customers ! All 3 of you are very easy on the eyes! That means purdy in TN.
I’ve never milled Sassafras in the shop before but have been told it looks like Ash and Catalpa. Seeing it here, I must agree! Thanks for posting!
Yeah I agree...it definitely seems like an interesting wood. Awesome stuff keep it up
Am glad you had that opportunity to accomplish that ,now i see for the first time how they make those type of chairs
I used to think maple was the perfect complimentary wood to walnut in a project. But that sassafras color, _and_ grain pattern! Gorgeous!
April I have to say I just love you and I love your videos you are such an inspiration.
COOL!! Dunno how you are able to to turn work into a social event and really cool memory, AND make us feel like we are right there with ya, but so glad you do. Thank you!
@4:30, my grandmaw gave each grandchild (over 30 of them) a small chair(like that one) for their first birthday. I still have mine. It’s precious to me.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing and also for watching.
Another great video. Here in East Tennessee, there’s a lot woodworkers hidden in the mountains and hollers. Plus, I can’t even begin to tell you how many guitar, banjo, mandolin, and other stringed instrument craftsman there are scattered about. Thanks for sharing your experience!
I love, love, love this story 💕
Every piece of furniture is absolutely unique and priceless.
BEAUTIFUL work! And the rubber band trick is worth the price of admission!! Make more!!
April, thanks for sharing this wonderful experience of making your lovely stool while in the company of friends! 😊👍🏻👊🏻
Great video April!! I have been building windsor chairs for awhile now after being taught by Gregs teacher, Curtis Buchanan, another really really great guy, and incidentally, the original designer of the democratic chair. Looks like you gals had a ton of fun, and that's what it's all about.
Cheers!
Another great video.The tips for drilling angles are awesome. Your 3 leg stool is beautiful. Keep the great videos coming. And congrats on the million mark, that has to be very gratifying to know that so many people enjoy your channel.
All we do in life should have relational implications, so I appreciate you comments about working while chatting/connecting/laughing with one another.
Three of my favorite ladies in one video!? Best day ever.
Great work! Thanks for taking the time to make, film, edit and share
Great job, that’s a nice piece. The sassafras wood looks great against the darker legs. Thanks for sharing.
That looked like an amazing time, learning all those new skills, wow. Your perch is beautiful!! Thanks for sharing your experiences.
I have watched every video since you have started on UA-cam and I believe this is my favorite.
Absolutely awesome. Thank you sooooo much April.
What an awesome experience to be taught my a master!! I love the complex form of the seat. Great job April. Happy Holidays to you, the family, and those chickens 🐓
Lots of interesting stuff there April and new channels to go and find too. The stool looks great.
@3:50, I cut up a 30” pin oak (hurricane blowdown) with hand tools. The quiet gave me time to think and open ears for UA-cam videos. 👍🏻
The look on you face when you said sassafras was cute. Loved the chair. Those spindles came out great
Good job April. Looks great.
So glad I came across this. Building my first 3 legged stool and looking for ideas. Love the facets on the legs. Although I prefer the look of 2 stretchers, I think with a contoured seat I’d run 3 so the my feet have a somewhere to rest. 👍
Another amazing project April. I have been following you for over two years and you get more amazing with each project.
Sasafrass It was the original old time Root Beer.
Sassafrass tea was used as a natural way to cure what ails you.
I made the tea when I was a kid. I dug up a sapling and boiled the root. It came out pretty good but it was a pain to make.
@@Iexpedite1 I did this too
It is what you use to make Sasperilla (sp?) ( kind of like Birch Beer) I think.
John Solar 283 ™ ...In the early 60s, on a Boy Scout jamboree in PA, we’re taught how to ID the Sassafras, dig up it’s roots and make the tea. It was a great time! 👩🌾
Not a bad looking build there Wilkerson 😎👍
Really enjoyed this! I love how you and your friends continue to meet up to help each other and learn new things. Thanks for sharing.
beautiful stool and wow Greg has a great looking workshop
That looked like a fun shop and project. I am glad you showed the finished project, and I was curious of the smell of sassafras, you covered both!
Hey April, you did a super good job on building the three legged stool. It really turned out awesome. AND you picked up another favorite word “SASSAFRAS “ oh and spicy.🤗 Thanks for sharing with us.
Loving these most recent projects and also the quality of the videos. Thanks April!
With this video, you really set the bar to a new level. The production quality of it is noticeably better. The light background music really adds a lot. Well done! :)
It's been many years since i saw you on UA-cam for the first time. Aren't we all getting old? ☺️
Looks like you all had a ton of fun. The perch looks great! Thanks for including Jenny's IG link. I was looking for it after watching Anne's video. Thanks for sharing!
You’ve come on leaps and bounds; your a star.
Great video.
That engraving was incredible!
I started a three-legged stool 2 years ago... I should finish it :)
Wonderful adventure April! Amazing project. Loved it!
A very nice segment.. Thank you
What a great project and video. Well done. I want to build a chair now.
That’s a great looking stool and great work
1 Million subs. Well done. Here's to a million more.
A fantastic piece of art!
Just love watching your videos! You truly show how much you love what you do!
Ohhhh my gosh, this turned out beautifully! Wood is amazing! I grew up watching my dad hand plane and carve in his wood shop. He made some of the most beautiful furniture. I'm guessing that's where I got my desire to start building stuff, first being the small coop of yours. I'm almost done with it! I can't wait to get more practice and experience with wood so I can start making wood projects with different types of wood. Like mahogany, cherry, oak.... gahhh! I can't wait!!!! I want to try to make a butcher block for my first mixed "fancy" wood project.
Also, I just wanted to say how stinking much I LOVE your channel. I have watched other wood working channels but there is something pretty darn cool about a female wood worker. One day I hope to gain enough experience to build some of the beautifl stuff you've built.
Good job! I've been working with more hand tools this year and despite the extra time it takes, it is very very satisfying!
I recently had the pleasure of working with some sassafras for a client and it indeed had a "spicy" perfume and worked nicely. I hope I have the opportunity to use it again. That stool is great, BTW. Very nice work!
There is something so satisfying and relaxing about your videos, absolutely wait for your bell to ring. Thanks so much for your time spent videoing and making stuff, what a great piece of art you have made. Thanks Again for all that you do.
Beautiful stool April. Great work.
PS - I've watched Anne's video and she did put one of her rabbits on the chair.
April!! Your sound design!!! I love it.
Great video April! Thanks for sharing it with us.👌👍😎JP
April, I believe this has been one of you best videos! The quality of sharp details shown are awesome! I love watching your videos and learn something from every singe one of them. As I have told you before, you make amazing projects and videos. Merry Christmas from a fellow Texan!!
Beautiful! The real piece of art!
Wow that class looks amazing, all the tools and wood. I love how you narrate and your personality is so bright. I would definitely build one of these chairs if I could. I like the faceting and the Democratic chair too
Quedo sorprendido siempre con cada proyecto que nos compartes.
Hello Ms. Wilkerson. I just watched your video making the walnut/sassafras stool. You are a very good host and I hope you have continued success in your woodworking. When you reach a journeyman level I bet you would make a great teacher so I will,continue to wait watch for your next project.
Best Regards and happy holidays
Fred Thomas in Skokie IL.
Very nice stool. Thanks for sharing......
I’ve never seen a sassafras tree that was big enough to build furniture out of. Mawmaw would dig their roots to make root beer. Beautiful construction.
Nice to see Your work!
Fantastic woodworking going on there. Great shop!!
What a great story.... And Stool!
I enjoyed watching the stool being constructed; it turned out beautiful BTW... and I saw some pretty clever and interesting tricks for orienting, finding centers, etc. - could you make a future video on some of those techniques it would be so awesome to learn so we can apply them in our woodworking.
I watched this over on Annies channel, but this gave even a different perspective... thanks for sharing! BTW: LOVE your stool!
VERY COOL STOOL!!!! Great work AW!
Sasafrass....so fun to say. Great leg. Love the contrast. Well done.
Your stool or chair, whichever you may refer to it as, turned out beautifully. I really look forward to seeing future hand tool videos from you. Now to start the collection of tools lol.
This video is a work of art!
that was really cool, I was thinking to make for my shop too,
enjoy watching your work and learning,
Good Job,
Hell April I love your works, thank for all the tips you give on this videos,