ThomD
>As you probably know he did a book on Krenov style planes, and he sells Krenov blades, or used to. There have been a number of recent movies with woodworking sidelines. There was one with Kevin Kline where he builds a house, and another where someone is a very high end cabinetmaker, and I think a murderer. None seems to have gone to the degree you mention. Hang around with timber framers, and you will meet people who started framing because of Witness, just as some people started cycling for Breaking Away, or fly fishing from A River Runs Through It. All of which sounds a little slow on the uptake, but at least they found their home in the end.

There are a number of woodworking arctors, like William Macey, and aledgedly, Ed Begley Jr. though he didn't seem to have that much woodworking on the go in his reality show.