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My mother-in-law asked me to carve her a free cedar spoon, because we're family. I handed her an invoice for $340 at Thanksgiving dinner, 12 people at the table, her face priceless. But that's not even the worst part. She came by the workshop last October, saw a black cherry spoon on the wall, said, "Oh, sweetie, can you whip one of those up for me? You've got plenty of wood out back, plenty of wood out back." Western red cedar, old growth, eight rings per inch, the kind you can't buy at lows, 42 hours of work, my rate, $340. I tell her I'll have it by Thanksgiving. Then she says one more thing on her way out. You know, honey, this little TikTok thing, my daughter deserves a real provider. You'll never hit 10,000 followers carving in a shed, 10,000 followers. If you've ever had someone close to you laugh at your dream, you know what that did to me. So here's the deal. If this video hits 10,000 followers before Thanksgiving, I'm putting my phone face up next to her plate at dinner. No speech, just the number. Drop a follow if you want to be there for it. Back to the spoon, grants for sprux, mora 106, sloyed, 164 hookknife, 600 grit, squash mark burned in, mineral oil and beeswax, Thursday night, 12 people at the table. I hand her the spoon wrapped in linen, she gasps, says, "Oh honey, you didn't have to." I slide the invoice across. Net 30, she laughs, until she sees I'm not.