Karl Cook, Maker of The Month Interview
- Sienna Broglie
- Jan 19
- 1 min read
Interview December 2025 with River Naile on The Making Place Podcast
Karl Cook is The Making Place's January Maker of the Month. His featured workshop taught a method of making earrings from recycled metal: Recycled Copper Earrings.
Karl is a wildland firefighter who enjoys traveling, volunteering, rafting, projecting and making jewelry!
"I have to put jewelry making into a part of my life that is fun, and if I was just making jewelry at home and selling it, it wouldn't be that much fun. I have done a whole lot more creative designing of earrings Since working at the making place and I think it's just being around other artists and talking about it."
"alot of the value I find in my jewelry isnt honestly super creative its just a thing that I enjoy doing and know how to do. every once in a while I have the moments of creatvitiy where im inventing new things but I try not to stress myself to make creative new things all the time because then I dont really enjoy it anymore."