Feel like throwing your broken wood chairs and table out? Maybe you should give them to this expert carpenter instead. Lam Che is one of the few carpenters left who knows how to turn old furniture into beautiful and useful works of art. We visited his studio to discover the technique he uses.

0:00 Mortise and tenon joints
0:37 Becoming a carpenter
2:08 Treasure from recycled wood
3:55 Is it possible to make money?


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Producer: Cassie Fei
Videographers: Gavin Wong, Cassie Fei
Editor: Hanley Chu
Mastering: Victor Peña
Animation: Stella Yoo


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