You know, when your dad does something and you learn it in that kind of way, you know,
something that especially us as Americans, we don't really do, then when you can learn
it more organically, an organic way without that pressure of having to get out of school
and make money, you know, and learn it from when you're a little kid and there's something
about learning a little kid, you don't have all these things that are, you know, in the
back of your head like, oh, crap, I got to do this, I got to do that, and that was what's
cool, you know, I mean, just learning and being around it, being comfortable with it
and then, you know, making a choice to make a living out of it.
My name is Jory Brigham, I've been woodworking since I was a kid, it's been in my family
for generations, since my great grandpa, you know, just being surrounded by it and became
part of my life.
Yeah, this is one of my favorite places to come to get wood, it's kind of a local wood
yard, Don here gets all of his trees, either people bring them in, they're clearing out
land for a house or kind of thinning the trees in their forest or whatever, but a lot of these
logs are reclaimed, he puts them here, he cuts them, he dries them.
It's real important to me to build something that's going to last for a long time, it's
not a disposable product, it's not something that we're going to build and people are going
to change out for a new piece when they change the color of the walls in their house, you
know, and that's kind of, I feel in the society today, I'm very used to that type of mind
process, you know, that it's, everything's disposable, I was like, you know, I compare
it to like in the 50s and 60s when people were building heirloom pieces that they bought
them with the intention to pass them down to their children, you know, and it was a
big investment, they looked at it as something that they would cherish and they really appreciated
and they looked forward to passing down their children and their children grew up around
it, they had memories of it, and in a way they would design around that piece because
it was so important to them.
Each wood, each piece of the lumber's kind of picked out and when we hand carve it, when
we hand shape it, it gets a different flow to it, a different life to it.
For me, woodworking is, it turned into a career, not because I was pushing it, not because
I wanted to make money, but really I just fell into it because I followed the things
that I love to do, you know, and did to the best I could, not for any reason other than
excitement, you know, I was just, I became passionate about it, you know, I feel very
fortunate and blessed to have found something that strives me and I think kind of create
a product that can really excite people and be a part of their home.
I don't know, there's always so much when I look back and like helping all my dad build
things, man, those are good times.
That's kind of what I look forward to down the road, you know, when the kids come help
me at the shop and working towards that kind of lifestyle, really having my family be a
part of it.
Yeah, it's cool that my kids can look at work as not as, you know, as a kid, as a kid,
as not as something that you go and you dread, but they can see that work and really be inspiring
and gives you joy and energy.
That's one of the things I feel is lucky to be able to come home from a 10 or 12 hour
day of work and just be excited, you know, it was a good day, I created something.
My name is Dory Brigham and I make furniture.
