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, 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
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.
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!
Traditional carpentry joints are beautiful...I have been watching you for several years and you are developing beautifully ... I greet you warmly April :)
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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 !!!
@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.
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!
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.
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. 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!
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.
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!
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.
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. 👍
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! :)
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.
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.
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 🐓
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!!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Congratulations on surpassing ONE MILLION subscribers! The laser angle system, mirrors & the rubber-band to find center are genius...definitely going in my mental bank for future use. Sassafras can be a spice...and it makes a really good tea as well...though it can be illegal in some areas so check first :)
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
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.
April, you hang out with the coolest people! Always amazed at the level of craftsmanship...that seat looked so comfortable! And sorry, who else thinks that is about as cute as it comes when she smiles and says, "Sassyfrass!" Getting back to your friends, Greg's workshop is amazing and Jenny's engraving is over-the-top! I bookmarked this video to my WOODSHOP folder because I thought it showed a lot details, like the spoke tools for the shaving and drilling out the perfect holes for the stool/chairs! And as always I like the strong female presence that I try to reinforce in my daughter, ex. #carpentHER! Brilliant & as always thanks for sharing and what you do for us mere mortals! :) (Steven Ramsey reference, sorry! Lol!) PS - And of course love, love Anne!
that was an impressive piece of sassyfras. I grew up around it here in wv and never seen one that would produce a diameter that big. Useally only about 6-8 inches. Never saw it used in woodworking but seems to have a beautiful grain. Here in wv its used primarilary for making a tea.
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,
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
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.
The old 'twist the rubber band/string to find center' trick. Nice.
I love how Greg combines the use of traditional hand tools with high tech stuff like the intersecting laser levels!
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, 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 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.
April, the joyful look on your face is priceless. The wood you chose is breathtaking together.
Very nice project April. Cool to see something built with only hand tools. Something about that just seems soothing and right with the world !
Traditional carpentry joints are beautiful...I have been watching you for several years and you are developing beautifully ... I greet you warmly April :)
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.
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!!
April, I have watched every video you hav made, I think this is the most challenging piece you have made, congratulations
Wow!!!! What a woodshop and video. You girls are not woodworkers, you are artisans!😊😊😊
can we just acknowledge the AMAZING cinematography in this video! I could watch this on replay ALL DAY!
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.
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.
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.
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.
My Goodness!!!! So Amazing!!!! I like your videos anyway, but this at Greg's Shop was a treat! Brilliant and Beautifully Produced.
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.
Perhaps her best video so far. Congrats, April. Job well done.
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
Congratulations on the 1 million subscribers.
Yup, way to go, April! 🎉🥂😃
Not a bad looking build there Wilkerson 😎👍
April I have to say I just love you and I love your videos you are such an inspiration.
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 !!!
@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.
Am glad you had that opportunity to accomplish that ,now i see for the first time how they make those type of chairs
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!
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.
@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 TH-cam videos. 👍🏻
BEAUTIFUL work! And the rubber band trick is worth the price of admission!! Make more!!
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!
I used to think maple was the perfect complimentary wood to walnut in a project. But that sassafras color, _and_ grain pattern! Gorgeous!
Good job April. Looks great.
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!
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.
Lots of interesting stuff there April and new channels to go and find too. The stool looks great.
Great job, that’s a nice piece. The sassafras wood looks great against the darker legs. Thanks for sharing.
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!
I have watched every video since you have started on TH-cam and I believe this is my favorite.
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
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.
That looked like an amazing time, learning all those new skills, wow. Your perch is beautiful!! Thanks for sharing your experiences.
You’ve come on leaps and bounds; your a star.
Great video.
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 !!
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!
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. 👍
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! :)
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.
The look on you face when you said sassafras was cute. Loved the chair. Those spindles came out great
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.
Beautiful stool April. Great work.
PS - I've watched Anne's video and she did put one of her rabbits on the chair.
Absolutely awesome. Thank you sooooo much April.
April, thanks for sharing this wonderful experience of making your lovely stool while in the company of friends! 😊👍🏻👊🏻
All we do in life should have relational implications, so I appreciate you comments about working while chatting/connecting/laughing with one another.
Another amazing project April. I have been following you for over two years and you get more amazing with each project.
Sassafras tree roots are what traditionally was used to flavor rootbeer and the scent is reminiscent of that.
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 🐓
What a great project and video. Well done. I want to build a chair now.
I love, love, love this story 💕
Every piece of furniture is absolutely unique and priceless.
April!! Your sound design!!! I love it.
Beautiful video April. I definitely subscribed to Anne's Channel. And am now following Jenny on Instagram. Have a lovely relaxing Sunday.
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!!
I watched this over on Annies channel, but this gave even a different perspective... thanks for sharing! BTW: LOVE your stool!
A very nice segment.. Thank you
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.
Schönes Video! Toller Stuhl! Happy new year from Germany
Three of my favorite ladies in one video!? Best day ever.
Just love watching your videos! You truly show how much you love what you do!
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.
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Hell April I love your works, thank for all the tips you give on this videos,
VERY COOL STOOL!!!! Great work AW!
Great work! Thanks for taking the time to make, film, edit and share
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!
Good job! I've been working with more hand tools this year and despite the extra time it takes, it is very very satisfying!
Fantastic woodworking going on there. Great shop!!
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
Loving these most recent projects and also the quality of the videos. Thanks April!
Really really beautiful video, thanks a lot April!
PS. Stool looks awesome too.
Wonderful adventure April! Amazing project. Loved it!
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.
Congratulations on surpassing ONE MILLION subscribers!
The laser angle system, mirrors & the rubber-band to find center are genius...definitely going in my mental bank for future use.
Sassafras can be a spice...and it makes a really good tea as well...though it can be illegal in some areas so check first :)
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
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.
that was really cool, I was thinking to make for my shop too,
enjoy watching your work and learning,
Good Job,
Loved all your videos, but this one was unique! Loved it more!
That’s a great looking stool and great work
1 Million subs. Well done. Here's to a million more.
April, you hang out with the coolest people! Always amazed at the level of craftsmanship...that seat looked so comfortable! And sorry, who else thinks that is about as cute as it comes when she smiles and says, "Sassyfrass!" Getting back to your friends, Greg's workshop is amazing and Jenny's engraving is over-the-top! I bookmarked this video to my WOODSHOP folder because I thought it showed a lot details, like the spoke tools for the shaving and drilling out the perfect holes for the stool/chairs! And as always I like the strong female presence that I try to reinforce in my daughter, ex. #carpentHER! Brilliant & as always thanks for sharing and what you do for us mere mortals! :) (Steven Ramsey reference, sorry! Lol!) PS - And of course love, love Anne!
That engraving was incredible!
I started a three-legged stool 2 years ago... I should finish it :)
Great video April! Thanks for sharing it with us.👌👍😎JP
Quedo sorprendido siempre con cada proyecto que nos compartes.
A fantastic piece of art!
that was an impressive piece of sassyfras. I grew up around it here in wv and never seen one that would produce a diameter that big. Useally only about 6-8 inches. Never saw it used in woodworking but seems to have a beautiful grain. Here in wv its used primarilary for making a tea.
Great video! Now I want some Sassafras to work with. Thumbs up!
Sassafras tree has 3 different leave no lobes 2 lobes(like a mitten) and 3 lobes and leaves and roots are old southern medicinal uses too!