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When you fire it, the only problem was

it had such a back blast, it'd blow up dust everywhere.

You'll never believe this, but here in Laurel

in our Veterans Museum, is an actual piece

of the USS Arizona from Pearl Harbor.

The Arizona is probably one of the most pivotal points,

not only in US history but in world history.

There are only three private museums in the world

that have a piece of the Arizona,

and we're one of them.

That's incredible.

The honor has been bestowed upon me

to build a new display for the piece of the Arizona.

Currently, it's just sitting on a easel

with a chain across it.

What I want to do is make it to where

anybody visiting the museum

can get closer to it and see it.

This is a build that preserves history.

This is my life.

History student turned woodworker.

And now, I am doing woodworking for history.

You gotta bring in somebody cool for this,

so Scott Eastwood is the man.

Yes, he's Clint Eastwood's son.

But Scott is an incredible actor.

He is building this career,

he's passionate about veterans,

he cares about America.

And bonus, Scott lived in Hawaii,

which is where Pearl Harbor is.

He's the perfect guy for the job.

Hello.

What's up, man?

Howdy.

They told me you were tall.

They weren't lying.

- No. - Jeez.

Have you ever been here?

I've never been to Mississippi.

- It looks good on you. - Thanks.

So I knew you did a little bit of construction,

but have you done some woodworking?

Pretty elementary stuff, you know, building ladders,

- shoring up walls. - Got you. Framing houses.

- I'm a terrible framer. - Oh.

- Like, for houses. - Yeah, I am, too.

- I'm really slow. - Yeah.

How did you get into construction?

- Uh, it was my first job. - Okay.

Doing the grunt work, you know,

demo, picking up trash.

- Carrying heavy things. - Carrying heavy things.

You're trying to keep a roof over your head, literally.

- Yeah, exactly. - You wanna see

- what we're gonna build? - Let's do it.

Okay. This is what...

we're gonna be working with, okay?

- Okay. - This is a piece

of the USS Arizona.

The aft quarter deck, okay?

These are actual bullet holes or shrapnel holes in it.

So it's a really, really special piece that we have.

When the Arizona went down,

more than half of the soldiers

who died at the attack on Pearl Harbor

were on the Arizona.

I know that you lived in Hawaii.

Have you ever been to Pearl Harbor?

I have, just an overwhelming

sort of emotion, you can't really describe it.

It's, uh, it's really powerful.

It's great that you're doing something

to honor this, and they deserve that honor.

- Yeah. - And that respect, you know.

The reason we are able to enjoy

the freedoms we have every day.

My father was in the Army,

scheduled to be deployed to go to the Korean War.

- And he was in a plane crash. - God.

And, uh, the only reason he wasn't deployed to the war

was because of that plane crash.

My father being a big supporter,

probably has,

you know, resonated somewhere in my life.

- Yeah. - That's where it started.

I wondered how long it would take

before we talked about your dad.

So we have

a picture of your dad right over here.

- I saw that. - And my truck

- is named Clint. - Oh, okay.

Named your... Named your truck.

- I like it. - Awkward.

I'm a history student turned woodworker

who grew up on Eastwood movies.

Now, I get to build a woodworking project

to preserve a piece of history with an Eastwood actor.

Never in my wildest dreams.

Let's see here.

This is a telescope box from the Navy

- from 1943. - Wow.

Earlier in the War,

boxes were built using a box joint.

- Yup. - And it was just a way

to make it really fast.

All right?

What I'm imagining with this

is like a 5 to 6-foot tall cabinet.

The first thing we're gonna do is our box joints

that will run down the front edges of the cabinet.

The sides and the face

of the cabinet will be heart pine,

reclaimed from a beam here in Laurel.

We're gonna make the drawer front

out of Koa wood, which grows in Hawaii,

sort of the crowning piece

is the cabinet door,

the frame for the piece of the Arizona.

I found salvaged teak

- from the USS Missouri. - Wow.

Yeah, so I'm really excited about the story

that the wood is gonna tell.

This is a piece of furniture

that will have promenades.

It is housing a piece of history.

I've never gotten to build anything like this.

- You wanna see it? - Yeah.

- Let's see it. - All right.

You got reclaimed loblolly pine.

Okay. So that's our Laurel tie-in.

You got Koa wood, which is Hawaiian wood.

- Yeah, it's beautiful. - Incredibly beautiful.

Yeah, and it has so much character.

I mean, this is like the bark,

but it, like, runs into the bulk of the wood,

- which is incredible, right? - It's really expensive.

We ordered four pieces about this size,

and it was $700,

- for those four... - For four of these pieces,

- this size? - Yeah.

- So... - Wow.

- ...it's pretty special. - Yeah, it is.

So, we're only gonna use it

- for our drawer fronts. - Okay.

But this is the piece

that I'm most excited about.

This is actually a picture frame

that was made in Hawaii.

This is teakwood from the deck

of the USS Missouri.

- Wow. - All right? Martin MacArthur

is a woodshop there that actually teaches

the trade of woodworking.

When the Missouri was restored,

all of the teak decking that was salvaged

- was sent to them. - Oh, wow.

And they built pieces out of it.

So this is a frame from Martin MacArthur,

and we'll build the cabinet to fit it.

The USS Missouri was actually

where the articles of surrender

were signed by the Japanese.

I see what you're doing here.

You're taking a piece of the USS Arizona

for our piece that we're displaying.

The beginning of the war...

And incorporating a piece from the USS Missouri

signifies the end of the war.

That's right. Pretty powerful.

This is one of my favorite pieces

- we've ever built. - Yeah, this is cool.

Let's work on our pine here first.

Okay? This came out of a factory.

So, what we're gonna do

is actually just pull the nails for now.

I could've done this

- before you got here. - That would've been nice.

So, we're taking all the fun out of it, then.

Think about a saw that's designed to cut wood,

and then you run a 100-year old nail through it.

It's gonna tear something up, and so,

that is the biggest pain

in working with reclaimed wood.

So, what was it like growing up in Hawaii?

Lot of amazing things about Hawaii,

I learned a lot about the ocean, a lot about, you know,

water sports, surfing, fishing, diving.

I grew up in that, what they call

Paniolo Country,

which is cowboy country.

I guess I'm kind of like

a surfer cowboy.

Surfing is probably the closest we get to flying.

It's a whole experience, right, it's a whole lifestyle.

Once it kind of bites you,

you're gonna spend the rest of your life doing it.

I'd be worried about what would actually bite you.

When you take a beam from a factory

that, you know, is over a hundred years old,

you clean it up, it has inherent

historic value.

Color, and figure, and beauty,

they cannot be recreated.

Once we de-metal the wood,

then we can actually work with it.

Have you ever worked with a planer?

I've never worked with a planer, no.

It's the most satisfying thing.

- Really? - When it comes out,

it will be so beautiful and so smooth.

- You got it? - Yup.

Oh, like scratching an itch.

- That is satisfying. - There we go.

All those years of dirt and grime,

clears it off.

How old were you when you moved...

- back to Monterey? - 16.

Got in a little bit of trouble at school,

so time to go live with my dad.

What's the worst trouble

you ever got into?

I don't know if I should tell that story.

That's the thing. It's his rules, which are...

Which is his way or the highway.

- His way or the highway. - As they say, yup.

He's not like a Dirty Harry, right?

He's not like, "Go ahead, punk.

- Make my day." - If you...

If you have to see that,

you've gone too far,

and that's not good.

You're not gonna give me a story?

- Nope. Nah. - Come on!

After we cleaned the wood,

we split the joints to make the sides

for our box joints.

All right. So this is our sled.

- Yup. - It's a way that we can make

hundreds of cuts that are exactly the same.

- Sure. - With box joints,

it's just squares cut out.

During the war effort,

this is something that would have been

vital to them being able to produce so much.

So you gotta tie it against here.

And you see that?

- Yeah. - You set it over it.

Ah, so now it's locked into place.

On the sled, we include a key

so that when you make your first cut

and you slide the board over to the key,

it locks it into place, you make your next cut,

and then you're off to the races.

And it's just one cut after next.

There is no room for error, it just works.

- So you see? - Got it. Yup. It's super easy.

- Pop, pop, pop, pop. - Ain't that pretty?

- Yeah, it's beautiful. - If you just miter a corner

or you, uh, butt joint a board.

There is so much room for error

in getting that joint perfect

that it takes time to actually build it.

When you do something like a box joint,

you just slide it together and it fits.

During the war effort,

our nation had to speed everything up

to be able to catch up to the rest of the world.

I wanted to pay tribute to that era.

Using the box joinery technique,

this piece will actually end up looking like

an ammunition box.

It will look like a piece of history.

Did you always wanna go into acting?

I'm like, "Uh, maybe I could do this.

Maybe I could do this job."

- Yeah. - Can do it okay.

Yeah, I'll give it a shot.

And my goal was if I can make it happen

and make a living at it, by the time I was 30,

I would continue to do it.

And if I couldn't, maybe just thinking about

being a firefighter, paramedic.

You'd be on a calendar for sure.

Mr. January right here.

♪ I want power ♪

♪ I want fame... ♪

Do you have a role

that you're really proud of?

I don't watch my own work.

Once you're done with it, you're done with it.

- You leave it, you leave it. - Really?

You put all your heart and soul into it,

you drop the mic,

and you're onto the next thing.

- Dang. - Yeah.

♪ I want fame ♪

♪ No time to lose... ♪

It is sort of a modern thing

to show your joinery.

Pre 20th-century furniture,

you couldn't see them.

But it's become a thing where,

yes, this is really fine joinery.

But I want you to see what I did here.

We like to show it off.

These are going to be our cabinet front,

which is called the face frame.

We'll have to adjust these a little bit, see?

- All right. - Looks great.

- Isn't it pretty? - Yeah.

♪ Yeah, I've got style ♪

♪ I got grace ♪

♪ I got everything You need ♪

♪ Babe, don't walk In my shoes ♪

♪ Oh, yeah ♪

For building the face frame,

we're actually gonna trim off

our excess.

Did you have any odd jobs?

I valet parked cars,

bartended, bussing tables.

- Really? - Yeah, in my 20s, yeah.

- Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. - You had to have those jobs

in order to be pursuing...

To be pursuing what I wanted to do as an actor.

So it's a credit to you like that you went out,

and worked, and earned,

- and you know what I mean? - Well, yeah.

If you didn't, then you wouldn't...

- You wouldn't get anywhere. - Right.

Yeah.

Scott's a handsome hunk, all right?

And he's a movie star.

But he's just a regular guy.

So where did you live on a train?

Oh, that was in Encinitas, California.

He comes from Hollywood royalty,

but nothing was ever given to him.

He had to audition. He had to work.

He had to scrape by,

working towards what the next thing is.

Okay. So this is where we're gonna domino.

- Domino. - We're going to dominate

- the domino. - Okay.

It's a joinery machine that cuts a hole

that this will slot in to.

So it makes a really strong joint.

It's so fast. It's like the box joints.

- Okay. - Of the early 20th century.

And it's brand new... It's relatively new?

- Relatively new. - You've got a little bit

of a mix between, like, old school joinery.

Mixed with this sort of modern flair.

That's right.

I like it.

Domino, baby.

For the face frame of our cabinet,

we're gonna use what's called a domino joiner

and it's a fairly new technology

in the woodworking world.

It's a piece of equipment

that mortises out

a perfect relief

that then has a piece of wood

that's shaped like a domino

that fits into that relief.

So once we join it together,

we'll have a really strong durable face frame

for our cabinet,

that then gets box jointed

to the actual cabinet.

I like this domino action, it's fast.

- Yeah. - Just like, boom, boom, boom.

So like, what's the job

that you're most impressed with?

- In film? - Yeah.

Stunts and stunt coordination.

What movie did you ride a bull on?

That was for The Longest Ride.

I wouldn't advise riding a bull,

2,000 pound animal.

If I had a nickel for every time

someone said that about me.

- Look at that. - It's beautiful.

- What is this piece called? - Face frame.

Frame? Oh, yeah.

Bring out the big clamp, the big dog.

Oh, yes.

This is the most gratifying part, right?

Yeah, seeing it come together.

Pretty cool.

Our face frame's gonna have

the box joints down the outside edge.

And then our side panels are gonna have

the box joint on the front edge.

So when it comes together,

it's all locked together.

It's perfectly square.

To make the side panels,

we'll glue up wood

to those box jointed pieces.

The sides are gonna be more of the heart pine,

but the guts of this thing, the back, the bottom,

it's gonna be plywood.

We're working with really expensive,

really rare woods here.

So, let's not use it in places

that you're not going to see it.

- These are drawer boxes. - Okay.

This is a local company called Morgan Brothers.

That build hundreds of these a day.

We are going to face them with Koa.

- Yup. - It's beautiful and it's rare.

The saw looks like a professional,

and I think you're just the man for this.

We're cutting it down to three-eighths thick.

We're using a piece that we can get

all three drawer fronts out of.

This is very rare wood.

All right? We're not getting anymore, okay?

Because again, $700 for four pieces.

So Koa means bravery,

warrior in the native Hawaiian tongue.

Pretty great, considering

we're doing a military piece.

If you think about the USS Arizona,

it forced us as a country into World War II.

Everybody picked up

and served the country where they needed to.

They had to... We had to band together

to support our country.

And I think we can do the same

whether we're in war or not, you know,

we can be supportive to our neighbors

- and the people around us. - You have a brand,

a clothing company, a...

- Beer company. - ...a beer company.

- Mmm-hmm. - Called Made Here?

Every point of the process is A to Z American.

We wanted to celebrate the American worker, you know.

Just like you celebrate this company.

- Yeah? - Morgan Bros. You know,

they're local made,

and you support your neighbors.

- And that's what it's about. - I love it.

We're just gonna rip that edge off,

and then we'll cut them to length on the miter saw.

Keep on pushing forward with your hand.

So this is actually my first time working with Koa wood.

When the light hits them certain ways,

it looks almost like it's on fire.

Perfect. You're making some stuff here.

It's some of the prettiest wood I've ever seen.

That's our drawer fronts.

So, I've got one more surprise for you.

- Okay. - In keeping with our theme

for today of Veterans appreciation.

Here, hold that. You're strong.

Check this out.

Oh, wow.

- Very cool. - Isn't that cool?

- Now, what year is this? - This is a '72 model,

- so Vietnam War era. - Okay.

I mean, I think that if we're gonna be delivering

a piece of furniture to the Veterans Museum,

we're gonna use a veteran jeep.

- I like it. - Yeah?

I like it.

Is there a role that you wanna play?

I'm doing different stuff. I just did a comedy,

did a heist film, I'm doing a drama.

So the goal is to just...

- Mix it up. - ...mix it up.

If you were to build a cabinetry everyday,

- you'd be pretty bored. - That's right.

We're gonna use a lacquer finish

on the unassembled pieces,

the pine and the Koa.

Then, we'll put it altogether.

We'll sand it all again,

and clear the entire piece one last time.

Ready to go.

Okay. All right.

- You got this here. - Yup.

So, we're gonna set the face on it.

This is just a dry fit.

- Okay. - What do you think?

It looks beautiful.

- All right. - Wow. It's beautiful.

- It's beautiful, isn't it? - It's amazing.

Because we don't want people actually handling

the piece of the Arizona.

We wanted the drawer so that, you know,

people can interact with the piece

they can open it up, see the pieces

that soldiers brought home from the war.

I'm gonna slide the velvet in,

it's gonna hide our plywood.

There you go.

Navy blue,

significant of United States Navy.

The teak from the Missouri,

pine from Laurel, Koa from Hawaii,

and steel from the Arizona.

Boom.

Gosh.

We're building a piece for the Veterans Museum.

We're gonna deliver it on a veteran.

That's pretty cool.

- Ready? - Let's hit it.

Come on. Start, baby.

Good to go.

Let's take it to the museum.

Woo, that air feels good.

Yeah.

All right, partner.

Hot delivery.

So this is the museum.

- Thanks for doing this, man. - Yeah, it's awesome.

For Scott and I, this is really cool.

The fact that we got to build

this piece of furniture together,

and he and I are getting to deliver it

to the museum and present

a World War II hero with it.

Jimmy Bass was a sailor during World War II.

He knows what it was like, he was there for it.

- How you doing? - Good afternoon.

- Good afternoon to you. - Appreciate you guys coming

and help us out with this project.

We just can't tell you how much we appreciate you.

Thank you for having us.

Love it. Love it, love it.

The piece of the Arizona was actually gifted to him

by the United States Navy.

And he has it on loan with the museum.

All right, the fact that he is

who we get to present it to, is...

Just means the world because not everybody

gets to do that.

There you go. Look at you.

- Beautiful. - Beautiful.

Fantastic.

Work of art.

It's not bad.

I wanted this to be something

that was not just a display,

but something that was a special piece of history.

It's pretty neat. I mean, we've got Laurel,

and the pine.

This is Koa wood from Hawaii.

- Okay. - And the Arizona

representing the beginning of the war

for us as a Nation,

and then this is teak from the USS Missouri,

represents the end of the war.

That completely covers it right there.

The goal was to not just build something to display it in,

but something that would tell a story.

And for the kids so they could get close enough

- to touch it without... - Right. Yeah.

...possibly knocking it over.

It's a hands-on without being a hands-on.

I know every time I walk by this display, you know,

from now on,

I'll think about those guys that were buried on that ship.

Almost a thousand of our men

died on that ship.

And, uh, I can't help but...

Every day I see it,

- I think about those guys. - Absolutely.

They will never be forgotten.

- Jimmy, it's a pleasure. - Scott, thank you, bud.

- It's a pleasure to meet you. - Appreciate you doing it.

Hey, thank you very much for everything.

That's a great, great job. Great job.

Thank you.

- Thanks, Mr. Jimmy. - Thank you, Ben.

- Appreciate you, buddy. - Absolutely.

For Scott and I,

this is a really special moment.

We both have a profound respect

for the men and women who serve our country.

To be able to do something

that honors fallen soldiers.

That is really special.

I enjoy so many freedoms

and do something that I love

because of these men and women.

You all really get a history lesson, boys?

This is a piece... Metal piece of the USS Arizona.

Yes. This is a piece that is displaying

a piece of world and American history.

But also, this is a really beautiful piece of furniture.

And so, to be able to combine all of that

into one thing, that's why I love doing this.