Here is the second of two little movies I made during our NH trip last week. (I'm having way too much fun with iMovie!) It a minute and a half long.
The subject is Bill Summers, a craftsman in Concord, New Hampshire, who makes perfect dovetailed jewelry boxes. Hopefully we'll have these for you soon at Greenjeans. We first spotted them at the Canterbury Shaker Village Shop with whom he's worked since the 1930s!
Mr. Summers, now in his 90s, is a study in how careful, consistent work keeps a person vital. He has been a woodworker all his life and his home is filled with furniture, decorative carved spoons, and curiosities that he's made over the years. He was a machinist by trade, and uses his combined wood and metalwork skills to make amazing pistols and muscats with incredible detailing and balance.
As movie begins, Jae asks him which he enjoys working with more, wood or metal...
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Very cool to see who and where a thing comes from!
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