Thread: New apprentice . . .

Ten out of ten, granddad for a job well done.

To the apprentice, good on you sport for your efforts making a beaut sword.

And an even BIGGER WELL DONE for now wanting your own woodworking bench; tools for Christmas and birthday!

Cheers crowie

The kid next door, a boy of 9, told me he wanted to make a box. Had him over one day for a few hours and we cut the box joints on some stock I'd prepared. Despite prompting I never saw him again. Got sick of moving the project around my small shed so finished it off and gave it to him to get rid of it. Maybe when he's older, but I'm not holding my breath.

Yes, this is a total contrast to your apprentice, TTIT.

You might have started him on a long and fruitful winding road.Top marks.

Absolutely fantastic. Nice to see.

Originally Posted by Peter White

You might have started him on a long and fruitful winding road.Top marks.

Hoping so!!!

Originally Posted by aldav

The kid next door, a boy of 9, told me he wanted to make a box. Had him over one day for a few hours and we cut the box joints on some stock I'd prepared. Despite prompting I never saw him again. Got sick of moving the project around my small shed so finished it off and gave it to him to get rid of it. Maybe when he's older, but I'm not holding my breath.

Yes, this is a total contrast to your apprentice, TTIT.

Could end up the same yet I sent him a link to a cool looking tote with a tray/lid and he wasn't impressed - wants to make a 'fancy box' like the ones I have in the gallery and doesn't care if he can't put tools in it - will let you know how it goes!

Originally Posted by TTIT

Could end up the same yet I sent him a link to a cool looking tote with a tray/lid and he wasn't impressed - wants to make a 'fancy box' like the ones I have in the gallery and doesn't care if he can't put tools in it - will let you know how it goes!

Yeah, well he's knocked out his first project (all by himself) so there's no point mucking around. Might as well go straight to fine furniture.

We finished the lads workbench yesterday - got him to forego the leg vise and santa is bringing a small woodworkers vise instead. The bench might look like a toy but it's solid enough. We made most of it by recycling the 'WarHammer table' that his other grandpa had made for his older brother who has now left home. All we had to add was a piece of form-ply (which dad had) on top of the 2 layers of 19mm ply for the top and some melamine for the shelf - the final piece of ply from the tabletop is going to become his shadow-board. Mum & dad got rid of the spa which wasn't getting used to make a workspace for him - Very happy camper there!

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Looks a good job now he will want to make something on it especially when the vice is installed

When my youngest daughter was still at school, during some holidays she asked me if she could turn a bowl. I selected a piece about 150mm across. I got it round and balanced for her then got her to "rub the bevel" of the bowl chisel and lift the handle to regulate the depth of cut. She has always been a kid to do what you tell her. She kept at it until it was finished and apart from the initial instructions from me she did on her own. The next holidays she came out again and asked to make another bowl. This time I found a blank 300 across. She didn't say anything while I refreshed her mind as to how to operate the chisel. When it was finished and sanded and taken out of the lathe she said that she was quite alarmed at the big diameter of the blank but never let on she may have been intimated.

She hasn't been out in recent years to do some more turning (she is 31 now) but when she was doing a Tafe Coarse on Computers she had to write a "how to" for an exercise so she wrote the "how to" about putting together a melamine cupboard, and passed. She had been around me often enough to relate on paper how t put a cupboard together