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Kevin:
On "Ask This Old House,"

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our experts travel
across the country

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to answer questions
about your house.

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Today we learn it's never
too late to learn new things

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as Tommy takes a turn
on the lathe.

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Tom: I do most of my
turning late at night.

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I'm up.
And why not turn a bowl?

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[ Chuckles ]

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Kevin: Then later he shows us

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how to build a segmented bowl
using the lathe.

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Plus Heath gives us a review
on how to identify breakers.

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Coming up next on
"Ask This Old House."

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Kevin: Heath, I always knew it
was going to come to this.

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Heath: [ Laughs ]
Kevin: You and your obsession

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with labeling and order.

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Heath: And my label maker.
Kevin: And your label,

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which I've heard actually
drives around with you?

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Heath:
It is under the driver's seat.

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Yes, a little drawer that's
the easiest place to keep it.

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Kevin: Alright. Listen.
Respect, brother.

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I get it because I love it,
you know.

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My thing's a mess,
and it drives me crazy.

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Heath: Yeah. You want to know
where everything goes.

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Just makes it better and safer.
Kevin: Absolutely.

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So what is your protocol?
What's your process?

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Heath: So the easiest way to go
about labeling

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a panel is two people.
You want to have two people.

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If you can have
a couple of telephones

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going or radios
of some kind going on

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because chances are you
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you're not going to hear
each other yelling across

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the house or up
and down the stairs.

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Kevin:
And two people because I'm up
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and you're down at the panel,

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"I just turned it off!" or
"Turned it off, what went out?"

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Heath: Exactly. Notepad.
Someone downstairs at the panel,

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someone walking through
the house and go ahead

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and start from step one.

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Pick the first room with lights,

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pick first receptacles,
whatever you want to do.

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Just start going through.

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The easiest way I found to start
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for the breakers,
pick the big ones first.

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Anything that's a double
pole breaker like this,

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double pole 20,
double pole 30.

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It might be a well
if it's a 20.

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If it's a 30,
it might be your electric dryer

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or an oven or an outdoor
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So those are the easy ones
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then work on the small ones.

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Kevin: Um, you don't always
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Heath: You don't.
Kevin: Running around

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up and down, back and forth.
Heath: I mean, it's good

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exercise,
but it takes a while.

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Kevin:
It does. Got an alternative?

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Heath: I do.
So of course they make a tool

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for that like everything else.

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So we start off what looks like
our usual little plug-in tester,

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where we can tell what's
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Kevin: Mm-hmm.
Heath: But it comes as a kit

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with this piece.
Kevin: Oh, nice.

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Heath:
So what it does is it sends

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a tone to the breaker panel,

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and you can actually find out
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[ Beeping ]

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So you turn it on,
just give it a once-over.

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[ Beeping ]

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And then it comes back.

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Kevin: And there you go.

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Heath: And that's it.
Kevin: That's beautiful.

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I like that.
That's going to save a lot --

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Although this obviously,

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you know, in a bedroom,
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all of the receptacles
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Heath: Right.
Kevin: And overhead lights

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are on another.
Like, what do you do?

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Like, "Ahhhh"?

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Heath: You can if you want,
but I don't recommend it.

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Kevin: Doesn't work?
Heath: No.

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Simple. Adapters.
Kevin: Oh, look at that.

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Heath: So we can just -- Even if
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that three-prong
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But you can plug that in.

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Kevin: But how does this
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Oh, so this unscrew the light
bulb in the overhead...

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Heath: Screw that in.
Turn it on.

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You can do the same thing.
Kevin: Very clever.

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I like that one.

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Okay. So you get them
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Heath: Yeah. Once you're
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what you have in your notepad,
everything made sense,

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it's labeled the way you want,

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you're going to know what's
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again, label maker if you can.

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Nice clean labels to the side.

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But sometimes you don't always
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Like here, we can't fit this

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and our legend here is
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I've tried to do the best I can,

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but you still can't get
everything in there.

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Kevin: Right.
Heath: So there are enough

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templates available online
that you can type whatever

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is going to be comfortable
and based on your panel size,

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and print it up, but print it up
on a self-adhesive page.

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Kevin: You went to
the stationery store.

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Heath: I did.
Kevin: And you made a grid.

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Heath: I did.

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You can size it to whatever size

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will actually fit in a space
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whether it's above the breakers,
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Cut it, stick it. Done.

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Kevin:
Could I stick that on the door
if I've got a sticker on there

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already telling me
who knows what?

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Heath: Don't cover this up.

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This is all the important
information for the panel.

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It tells you what breakers,
how big they are,

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how many breakers
this can actually take,

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everything else
that goes along with it.

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So don't cover up
any of the labeling.

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Look for an open space.

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I mean, if you had to, worst
case, on the front of the door,

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but usually in a larger panel,
you're going to find a spot

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above this or above the breakers
or below that you can fit that.

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Kevin: Gotcha.
So what are you doing tomorrow?

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Heath: Are we labeling a panel?

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Kevin: Either that or you're
letting me borrow this.

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Tommy, look at you.
A new tool for us, huh?

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Tom: A new tool for up here,
a lathe.

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Kevin: Although I've never
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as a lathe guy.
Tom: I don't consider myself

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a "lathe guy" by any means.

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Kevin: So you get a piece
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and then you got a spline
between the pieces?

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Tom: Right. And that spline is
made out of hard pine.

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It's just an accent piece.
That's all it is.

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Kevin: So not a lathe guy, huh?

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Tom: I still don't
consider myself a "lathe guy."

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You see some of these people
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I mean, they're amazing,
what they do.

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And I just play on the lathe
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and turn a bowl or a pen
or a box or whatever.

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Just something that I feel like
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2:00 in the morning
when I can't sleep,

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I get up and I turn.

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It relaxes me.
It gets stuff off my mind.

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I can think and I can focus
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So sometimes
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I don't want to think about,
I go down and focus

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on this little thing
turning around.

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It's my Zen, yeah. Yeah.

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My wife Susan says
every now and then,

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"You really like doing this,
don't you?"

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Uh, yeah.
Keeps me out of trouble.

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My dad had
an old Craftsman lathe

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and I used to play
with that when I was young.

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My brother Dickie
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So, you know,
I wanted to be like Dickie.

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If he could turn a lamp,
I can make a lamp.

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So I made a lamp.
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and then if my dad had a project
or we were doing something,

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and I had to turn
something silly,

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maybe a column base molding,
little detail,

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it would take me
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but I didn't really
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And then I didn't really
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until a couple of years ago,

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when I started having
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You're basically
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when you own a company.

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There is no six-,
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It's 20 hours a day is really
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six, seven days a week.

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But now I don't have
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that I have
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So now I still -- I'm up
and why not turn a bowl?

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I've gotten into all kinds
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Turning some burls.

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Kevin: Look at that.

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Tom: I made a cookie jar

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for one of our homeowners
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Woman: Thank you so much.
Tom: Baby rattle, yeah.

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I made a couple of those.
A few of those.

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Baseball bats.

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I made a cabriole leg
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Christmas ornaments.
They started out --

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they didn't start out
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Basically, I would just
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and I would cut them
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to practice my five different
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I had like 20 of them on a table
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and ended up
showing it on social.

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And then somebody had said,
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are those Christmas ornaments?"

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And next thing I know,
I'm making Christmas ornaments.

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Kevin: [ Laughs ]

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Tom: Merry Christmas! Right?

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Kevin and I,
We got a note on social.

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Man: Kevin, Tommy,
you're my only hope.

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Tom:
He wanted to know if I would
teach him how to turn a ring.

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Alright?
And I really don't have time

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to teach somebody
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So basically, what I did
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is I'll just make him a ring
and we'll send it to him.

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So Kevin worked
on getting the size,

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and then we made
a little skit out of it

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where Kevin went in the woods

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and he got a big log like this
to make a ring like this.

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And we just made it funny,
dropped it down onto a table,

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and I was like,
"I got it, sonny,"

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and we started turning it.

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And so I turned the ring.

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And then I said to myself,
"Hmm.

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I should make a little box
for the ring to go in."

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So when he asked her
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he can give her the box,
take the cover off,

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and there's the ring.
And so that's what we did.

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And it was fun.
They appreciated it.

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I think everybody should have a
hobby because when you retire...

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I know I've had friends
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and they're going crazy.

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And unfortunately it's sad

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because some people
become lonely.

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There's nothing to do.
They did -- They never --

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They never tried anything.

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You know, it doesn't
matter what it is,

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but you got to stay busy.
You got to stay focused.

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You got to keep
your mind on things

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and you got to
challenge yourself.

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Challenging yourself is the is
the drive that keeps you going

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and you want to do it more.

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And that's the beauty
of turning, I think.

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To see something
that you built

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in a little bit of time...

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I can turn a silly little bowl
in 40 minutes, half an hour,

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or I can spend 14,
20 hours on building a bowl.

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Any way you look at it, the
gratification is still there.

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It's just like I say, fun.

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♪♪

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Well, I guess I'm a lathe guy,
but I --

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It's -- I like to turn.

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[ Chuckles ]

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♪♪

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Kevin: Hey, Tommy.
Tom: Hey, Kevin. How are ya?

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Kevin: I'm doing alright.
So bowl turning, huh?

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Tom: How'd you guess?
Kevin: I don't know,

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but it always gets me excited.
I enjoy your bowls.

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They're amazing, actually.
Tom: Yeah.

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I find it very relaxing.
And a simple bowl like that,

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you can turn quick
and it's gratifying.

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Kevin: It is your happy place,
right?

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I mean, after hanging out
with me.

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Tom: [ Laughs ]

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That's my second happy place.
Yeah.

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Turning a bowl out of a solid
piece of wood is always fun,

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but I thought we would do
something different today.

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I want to do a segmented bowl.

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Kevin: Segmented bowl.
Tom: A little more work.

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Kevin: Yeah?
Tom: But a lot of times

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I turn a segmented bowl
out of scrap pieces

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or leftover pieces of wood.

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When I say scrap,
think of the cutting board

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that we made, the
octagon-shaped?

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Kevin: Yeah.
Tom: Alright.

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So I had some of
the pieces left over.

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Kevin: No kidding.

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So we had that kind of
three-dimensional trick

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that we played with
the different colored woods.

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This is just from the scraps?

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Tom: That's the scraps,
the leftover, yeah.

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I mean, that's not my taste
really, the kind of bowl,

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but I say why waste the wood?

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Kevin: Yeah, it's busy,
but the idea is,

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I guess, little pieces
glued together.

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But then you smooth
and shape with a lathe?

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Tom: Yep. Exactly.
Like I say, very gratifying.

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Kevin: Okay, well,
those are beautiful examples.

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No surprise. I presume this is
the base stock we're using?

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Tom: Yeah, I was down where I
buy a lot of my wood

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and this place had
this wood right there.

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And I looked at it, I said,
"That's interesting.

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What is it? It's awesome."
He says it's orange osage.

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Kevin: That's kind of like
my nickname. Orange.

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Tom: Matches your hair perfect.

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Kevin: Hardwood, I presume?
What is that?

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Tom: It's a leafy,
so it's got to be hardwood.

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I never saw it before.

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I guess it's grown
in another part of Texas.

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It develops a fruit, orange,
but it's not edible for humans.

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Kevin: Okay.
Tom: And this is a small piece

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of walnut that I had left over.

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So I figured we'd do
a segmented bowl

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with orange osage and walnut.

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Kevin: So how do we get started?

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Tom: We get started by
ripping some wood down.

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Kevin: Let's do it.

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[ Saw buzzing ]

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Tom: Okay, so now I want to rip

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a strip wide enough
for the bottom.

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Kevin: And those are going
to be little wedges?

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Little triangles?
Tom: Exactly.

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Because I don't want
that expansion

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contraction all one way.

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Okay, so the next thing
we need to do

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is make triangular pieces.

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And we're going to do that
on the miter saw.

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Okay, so the next thing
I want to do

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is I want to make
the sides for the bowl.

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So I'm just going
to make some strips.

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Now I want to rip one thin strip
to accent the bottom.

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Alright, now we're ready
to cut our sides for the bowl.

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We're going to cut pieces
that will go like this.

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Little pieces like that.

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And they all have
to be the same size

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and the same angle on each end
to give me the diameter

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and the size
of the bowl that I need.

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Kevin:
And then when you cut them,

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you're going to end up
putting them together,

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and you're going to have enough
of these to go around

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and roughly create your circle?
Tom: Right.

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And this bowl is going
to take 16 of these pieces.

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And it's about 2 3/16
or 2 1/4 inches long.

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Kevin: And then what
about this angle here?

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Tom: That angle is
going to be 11 1/4.

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Kevin: Hmm.
Tom: Alright?

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Now, to do that I made a sled.

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And on the sled
I have two pieces

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because of the different bowls
that I make.

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And I set these
at 11 1/4 degrees.

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That gives me my angle.
And I take this piece here

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because I cut
the strip off of it.

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So now I take and I put a stop,

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and this is just glued,

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basically
going to give me my length.

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So I've already cut one 11 1/4.

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I'm going to use this
as a gauge.

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And I'll set it down here

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so that this edge is parallel
with the sled right there.

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Kevin: Long to long.
Tom: Long to long right there.

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Lock it in.

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Now, I also took a piece of wood
that does not touch the blade,

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and it's cut on an angle.

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And what happens is,
when I cut this piece of wood,

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the piece of wood
will go through and fall off

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and come away from the blade
and won't come back at me.

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Kevin: Clever.
Something tells me

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there's more here in this jig
than there is in the bowl.

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But we're going to do it all.
Alright.

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Tom: It's a lot of work,
I'm gonna tell you.

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It's very, very time-consuming.

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Alright, so we have enough
pieces cut for the top,

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the accent piece, and also
two rows for the long pieces.

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So let's show you
what we have here.

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These will be our top
three rows.

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Kevin:
So you got layers like this?

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Tom: Layers like that.
Now I want to make --

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because the bottom is
going to -- the sides

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are going to come in and taper.

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So the next row down, each piece
has to be a little bit shorter.

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Kevin: Because you want to pull
that diameter

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in just a touch?
Tom: Exactly.

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So now we'll cut 16 pieces
a little bit smaller.

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And the diameter of that circle

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will be a little bit
smaller also.

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Alright. So now we're ready to
glue up the bottom here.

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Kevin: It does start
make you appreciate

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that when you look at a bowl
that's one species,

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and then you look
at a segmented bowl

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and you're like,
"Ooh, a lot more work..."

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Tom: Yeah.

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Kevin:
"...goes into a segmented bowl."

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Tom: So I figure that
some of the bowls

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that I've built takes me
anywhere between 8 to 14 hours.

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Kevin: So a zip tie
for a clamp, huh?

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Tom: I use them for a long time,

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and I've used
these same zip ties.

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I've had them for many years.
People always say,

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"Well, why do you go
through a lot of zip ties?"

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I said, "Well, actually I don't.

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I sand them or clean them,
whatever I have to

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when they get a little gunky."

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Clamp it together.

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Kevin: And you have a zip tie
tightener.

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Tom: Yeah.
Kevin: Of course.

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Tom: So now technically
we have to go -- put this aside.

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We have to clean off
our plastic,

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and then we have
to glue up another one.

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We have three more pieces
to glue up.

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Kevin: And then we got to wait
for it to set up.

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Tom: Yeah. Aright.

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So now I want to get
a bowl made today.

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Alright?
So I know how long it takes.

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But I wanted you to appreciate
the fact that how long it takes

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to really put
these things together.

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Alright, so what I did
is I glued up sections already.

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Kevin: Very nice.
Tom: Alright?

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So I can show you the step.

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So let's start with the bottom.

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It's glued.
Kevin: That is set up.

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Look at that.
Tom: And I sanded it smooth.

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Okay?

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So the next step would be

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to take the smaller circle
and glue

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that to the top of that bottom.

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Now, the reason I do that is
because I need to get a tool in

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to curve the radius on
the bottom and taper the bottom.

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Kevin: So are you going to
turn this in parts?

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Tom: I'm going to
turn this section first.

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I first have to make a recess
on the bottom

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to mount it to the lathe.
Kevin: Right.

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Tom: Once it's on the lathe then
I turn the bottom at an angle.

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Kevin: So you would turn base
and row one first?

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Tom: Right. And then while
that is going together,

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I glue up the three pieces

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that are then
going to sit on the top.

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Kevin: Look at that.
And those are all sanded flush.

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Tom: Those are all
sanded, glue's all off.

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Kevin: Very nice.
Tom: Right.

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So then what I have
is the bottom

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with a recess
to mount it to the lathe.

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Kevin: Shaped on the outside.
Tom: That's starting to take

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the shape of the bowl
right there.

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I've done the inside and I've
turned the radius on the bottom

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and tapered it slightly.

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So now when I put it
on the lathe,

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I marry the rough turn
to the smooth turn,

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both on the outside
and the inside.

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Kevin:
So you can start lathing this?

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Tom: Exactly.

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Kevin: I'll start clearing.

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Tom: I think we might make it
a little bit --

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a little bit straight
and then roll it down gentle,

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make the top edge and treat
it like a salad bowl.

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Kevin: Okay.

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Tom: Alrighty.

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Kevin: I mean, I already
have a salad bowl,

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but you do whatever you want.
Tom: [ Laughs ]

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You eat salad?
Kevin: [ Laughs ]

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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Tom: So now you're ready
to sand the bowl.

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Let's go from 100 to 240,
inside and out.

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This is a sanding paste,
and along

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with the white pad
that you're using there,

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really give a fine
finish to that.

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Now we're ready
for a food-safe finish.

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This is an oil and some
beeswax in it, I believe.

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Once it's on there,
heat it up a little bit

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and just try to spread it.

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Kevin: Got it?
Tom: I got it.

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Kevin: Don't drop it.

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Tom: I got to say,
this is my first time

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working with the osage,
and that finish really pops.

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Kevin: It's gorgeous. I mean,
look at that.

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Orange is fantastic.

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And the contrast with the top

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and that beautiful contrast

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in the bottom,
that is remarkable.

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Tom: Walnut really sets it off.

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Kevin: That is beautiful.

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So, you know,
there's an artistry

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I'm noticing
to the lathing part.

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But there's really
a lot of industry

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to the segmentation part.

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You really got to think
it through.

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There's some geometry, math,
I mean, and patience.

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Tom: Yeah.
It's a challenge to get it

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to where you think you want it.

483
00:22:10,866 --> 00:22:14,100
And it's funny because
once you form the bowl,

484
00:22:14,166 --> 00:22:15,466
you've got it all built up,

485
00:22:15,533 --> 00:22:19,100
the tool allows you to shape it
in different directions,

486
00:22:19,166 --> 00:22:20,733
and look what you get.

487
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,333
Kevin: Yeah, well, I can see
why you enjoy it.

488
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,533
You are a real artist.
Tom: It's very relaxing.

489
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,866
That's why I love it.
Kevin: Nice job, Tommy.

490
00:22:26,933 --> 00:22:28,500
Alright, well,
that is it for us.

491
00:22:28,566 --> 00:22:30,633
So until next time,
I'm Kevin O'Connor.

492
00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:31,633
Tom: And I'm Tom Silva.

493
00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:33,866
Kevin: For "Ask This Old House."

494
00:22:33,933 --> 00:22:35,000
Beautiful job.

495
00:22:35,066 --> 00:22:39,066
♪♪

496
00:22:40,333 --> 00:22:42,500
Kevin: Next time on
"Ask This Old House"...

497
00:22:42,566 --> 00:22:45,166
Nathan heads to Portland
to help a daycare provider

498
00:22:45,233 --> 00:22:47,366
build a mud kitchen
for her students.

499
00:22:47,433 --> 00:22:48,766
Woman: Can't wait for them
to see it on Monday.

500
00:22:48,833 --> 00:22:50,733
They're going to have
so much fun.

501
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,966
Kevin:
Then Mauro helps a homeowner

502
00:22:53,033 --> 00:22:55,500
update a wood-paneled room.

503
00:22:55,566 --> 00:22:58,966
And are you perplexed
when it comes to pruning?

504
00:22:59,033 --> 00:23:02,166
Lee gives a tutorial
on the tools and techniques

505
00:23:02,233 --> 00:23:05,466
that will have you
shearing like a pro.

506
00:23:05,533 --> 00:23:08,433
All that on
"Ask This Old House."