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Truly Gifted

carves Santa heads and other Christmas creations with a chain saw, using leftover ponderosa logs he gathers from the lumberyards and sawmills in Las Vegas and Española. Vialpando flame-burns coloring on the wood and adds a weather-resistant sealant., ;

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