Furniture by 100 year old Al Hudson

8/2/19, 7:32 PM #1

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Furniture by 100 year old Al Hudson

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Al is my friend from Knoxville, tn. His friend Jerry spady brought this piece up for me to photograph today. Al was 100 just a few weeks ago and is still building things like this. amazing.

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8/2/19, 8:25 PM #2

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I might add that Al broke his hip a few weeks back and is in rehabilitation after a full replacement. He says that he is eager to get back home so he can get in the shop again.

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8/2/19, 11:53 PM #3

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Could have sworn I posted it but now I see what happened. The file was too large. Here it is.

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8/2/19, 11:54 PM #4

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Well now it's too small to see how good it really is.

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8/2/19, 11:57 PM #5

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OK here it is.

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8/3/19, 6:38 AM #6

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Re: OK here it is.

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That is seriously impressive and inspiring!! Thanks for sharing

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8/3/19, 11:09 AM #7

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Doubly Impressive....

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Impressive in it's own right, no matter who built it and

Impressive because Al built it at 100 years old.

By the time I am a hundred I will have been gone for about 20 something years.

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8/3/19, 12:50 PM #8

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20 something? I'm at 20 1/2 already

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

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