Bills Boxes (Texas Country Reporter)

See how one man is taking hill country timber, and turning into works of art.

Bill Clegg
Clegg Craft
Live Oak, TX

Phone: 210-602-2260
Website: http://www.cleggcraft.com/index.html

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I start with the tree a lot of times I'll gone to friends ranches and help them clear property and stuff and and bring the logs home that I want and and after they're dried enough I start cutting them up and and making bucks call it a coincidence or brilliant marketing but in Live Oak we stumbled upon of all places a wood shop inside this sawdust filled space we found Bill Clegg cutting and sanding his harvested he'll country temper all right so Bob the next thing I do after I cut both ends off I look at at both sides we look how pretty that is and see which one looks more unique to me which one isn't and I like I like this one better I like all the different marks in here you like to stuff right here yeah so this is gonna be the face and this will end up be in the back wow what I do with the logs is completely my creation and my designs and my idea [Music] each log has its own characteristics but it's what bill constructs with these cuts of red cedar and ash juniper that make his woodworking one-of-a-kind for the last 25 years bill has been carving up crosses and his most popular item that requires you to think outside the box two crosses talk to me about your hidden drawers I see three drawers in this piece right there that one's got a few more than three it does and all the ones most of my bottom lip Texas I don't have a heart deep in the heart attack deep in the heart of Texas I like that so the real test is you know how to put that back together with my eyes opened or closed Bill's boxes are carefully crafted using his three-dimensional mind there's no telling where the next drawer will be when you open up a piece but what things for sure children and adults alike love the challenge of trying to piece them back together I have all customs of little kids I'll have little kids as my boo that'll open every single drawer in my booth they find it they'll find them and then they end up being my best salesperson people will come in and I decide to sit down and let the kids show let the kid show the customer what it is [Music] these one-of-a-kind keepsake boxes may start with a simple piece of wood but they turn into so much more for Bill they're a way to give precious memories with others and that's something he hopes to share with everyone we have sold a few boxes that I know that guys have bought them to put the ring and engagement ring in the heart for their fiance so like they need open the heart and there's a ring Wow how does that make you feel that you're mentoring other people and this is something that if you feel yeah it feels good and I tell people all the time they're more than welcome to come over I'll teach them how to make a bandsaw box I mean it's not like I'm gonna get rich doing this but I love it so it's not like I say if you find work that you love to do it's not like you're working [Music] you