Finnish American Chip Woodcarvers | movie | 2019 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Finnish communities were carved out of the forests in Michigan's Upper Peninsula four generations ago. The Finns here st | dG1fcjY2b1lUN3gzWUE

Transcript

00:00 [ Silence ]

00:06 [ Foreign Language ]

00:07 Happy bird.

00:09 That looks very nice.

00:13 I look at something and I, if I see a nice form coming off the knife, I say, "Wow, I can use that in my crafts."

00:23 And that's where I got these, off of a piece of cedar, and they just curled off of there nicely, and then I put them together like this.

00:33 The Finlanders that came here had to have Sisu, determination, endurance, to even survive here, you know.

00:41 And we take a lot of things for granted, but these people really worked hard to survive here, I tell you, you know.

00:48 And not only survived, but prospered too.

00:51 You'll notice the house is the finished double dovetail.

00:55 It's sloped this way, but also this way.

01:00 It's a locking device that, there's no way that this log is going to move.

01:07 But you can notice how straight that is still.

01:10 When you look at a piece of wood, it's really nice to see beauty inside of there, you know.

01:19 And I kind of like it.

01:21 And you make this. Where did that come from, you know?

01:24 Inside your brain. Why did I make that?

01:28 You know, you question.

01:31 I think it's good to keep that brain working, thinking, always thinking.

01:35 You gotta, gotta always figure, you know.

01:39 I think that there's still secrets here, in the woods, that I don't know about.

01:47 Some of the finished tapes that I sit here and listen to, when I'm carving.

01:53 That's why it's called chip carving, because the pieces coming off there, that chip that comes off.

02:08 [Music]

02:26 [Silence]

02:35 [Hooting]

02:37 [Silence]