ABOUT CHIP

Chip is from a family with a long history in callmaking. From his great great great great grandfather Jehu Brown who was a furniture maker in his native Scotland. To his father's generation which includes Mike "Mickey" Brown. Mike is one of the most respected of the older callmakers and is featured in the earl Mickel book Turkey Callmakers Past and Present.

When Jehu Brown came from Scotland in the 1700's he settled in what is now the Yadkin River area of North Carolina after receiving a land grant for his service in the Revolutionary War. There he again began furniture making and farming.

So Chip and his family can trace woodcrafting in their families across two continents and 300 years.

NOTE FROM CHIP:
I'm a native East Tennessee crafstman. My family have made furniture, longrifles, chests, cabinets, game calls etc for generations.

By education I'm a computer programmer. However, I didn't care for writing code very much or sitting in an office all day. I spent most of his time looking out the window. My wife encouraged me to look for work that I enjoyed.

I thought long and hard about what I was good at, and my ever helpful wife gave me a clue. She came into my office one day and said "Listen stupid, quit looking out that window and get to work!" It was like a dawning of a new day for me.

I thought to myself "Self, you're good at being stupid!" But how could I make that pay? Politician? Government worker? The guy that designs interstate off-ramps?

I settled on being a humor columnist. Increadibly folks are willing to pay me for stupid editorials! Ahhh America has been very good to me.

Now I work about an hour a day and rarely get out of my pajamas...My office is at home don't worry. But while this writing nonsense helps pay the bills it leaves me with a lot of free time.

FREE TIME + CHIP = TROUBLE

My wife encouraged me to take up a hobby. I tried sitting at the local doughnut shop and talking politics. The elderly retired gentlemen there asked me not to come back.

My wife decided the best hobby for me was one in which I was alone and couldn't bother anyone. She bought me a lot of tools and put me in the basement making turkey calls. I've been there ever since. From time to time I come up, type at my keyboard, send in an article and eat a Moon Pie and drink an RC. Then I goe back to the basement to make more calls.

I'm happy, my wife is happy and the old men at the doughnut shop even dropped the restraining order. Life is good.

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