April Wilkerson

April Wilkerson (born 1987) is an American YouTuber who specializes in do-it-yourself woodworking and metalworking projects around the home.

Career

Wilkerson is from Texas. She graduated from University of Texas at Arlington in 2012, after studying business management, and began working on projects to improve her house. Wilkerson had a long to-do list of home improvement projects. Gareth Branwyn, ''Makezine'' magazine, February 7, 2017
Shop Organization Projects with April Wilkerson
Retrieved August 20, 2019, "...April is a young Texas woman who, just a few years ago, basically knew nothing about woodworking ... she had a long list of improvements they wanted to make in their home ..." She posted a blog, which led to her creating YouTube videos in which she described her process of figuring out how to build things such as a planter, a light above a pool table, an outdoor pressurized air line between shops, a porch, a coffee table, an outdoor shower, a holiday decoration made from an old whiskey barrel, various art projects, and so forth.Augusta Statz, November 14, 2017, ''SimpleMost'' magazine
Turn A Wine Or Whiskey Barrel Into A Shabby-Chic Holiday Decoration: How cool would one of these look on your front porch?
Retrieved September 19, 2018, "...Self-proclaimed “obsessive DIYer and woodworker” April Wilkerson decided to make a barrel luminary..."Timothy Dahl, September 15, 2016
How to Build an Outdoor Shower
''Popular Mechanics'', Retrieved September 19, 2018, "...use corrugated plastic like April Wilkerson used in the video below..." She doesn't describe herself as an "expert" but rather as a newcomer and teacher eager to share her newly acquired knowledge as she works on new projects. Generally her projects involve woodworking, but she has done metalworking and welding as well. Many of her projects use scrap lumber; she buys new tools when she needs them, and some sponsors of her YouTube channel have sent her tools and equipment for promotional purposes. As of December 2020, her YouTube channel has over 1.3 million subscribers. Wilkerson completes many of her pieces in her 3000 square foot workshop.

With Tim Allen and Richard Karn, Wilkerson co-hosts several TV series that are spiritual spin-offs of ''Home Improvement'' sitcom's show-within-a-show ''Tool Time''. In 2021, she so costarred on '' Assembly Required'', a series that premiered on History in February 2021. On each episode, three do-it-yourself experts undertake two rounds of building challenges, with a $5,000 prize at stake. Prior to the second round, she secretly sabotages a key item in the kits sent to the contestants, requiring them to diagnose and repair the problem in order to complete their builds. In 2022, she so costarred on '' More Power'', a series that premiered on History in June 2022. On each episode, the three DIY experts cover the history of a tool.

In 2022 the creators of ''This Old House'' were creating a series called ''This Old House Makers Channel'', to be aired on Roku, and Wilkerson is slotted to be one of their so-called 'Featured Makers'. February 8, 2022, Businesswire, Yahoo! Finance
This Old House® Announces Brand New Linear Channel – This Old House Makers Channel – a First-of-its-Kind Channel Featuring Leading Makers and Craftspeople
Retrieved February 14, 2022, "...April Wilkerson – Creator of Wilker Do’s, master woodworker and welder April Wilkerson builds just about everything from scratch..."

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1987 births
American woodworkers
American woodcarvers
Living people
Metalworkers
YouTubers from Fort Worth, Texas
21st-century American women
Women woodcarvers
Women metalsmiths
DIY YouTubers