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By the time most people reach retirement age at 65, they’ve already started to slow down, to reduce their output. Not Tehachapi oldtimer Hooks Anderson — at 90 this talented craftsman is still producing some of his best work. Proof of this master woodworker’s continuing creativity is a scaled-down replica of a freight wagon that he recently completed. This beautiful wagon made primarily from oak and Ponderosa pine has even more significance when you consider that Hooks didn’t make it from a kit or pattern of any kind, or even from store-bought lumber: Hooks started with Tehachapi trees which he milled into lumber using a sawmill he designed and built himself (in the summer of his 75th year). Hooks also fabricated all the metal hardware on this amazingly accurate wagon, including the steel rims on the wagon wheels and the functioning brake system. Hooks built the entire wagon from memory and the pictures he keeps in his mind of childhood rides in a...
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