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vtsteam:

--- Quote from: S. Heslop on December 17, 2014, 06:10:58 PM ---Still, doing nice carpentry takes more patience than I have. I bungle most projects that I set out to make nice since I start getting fed up with them and rush it.

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Huh?????

Not from the evidence, I've seen! :bow:

Eugene:
Steve, Nice work.

Consider your bench design and method duly nicked. I showed your pics to The Management who said words to the effect of "Get on with it, then. That old desk in the workshop is falling apart and I'm fed up of looking at it!"

Eug

vtsteam:
Eugene, that's great! Of course I nicked it from Dave Gingery, with some small changes to fit the dimensions of my tiny shop.

And if you want to get it right from the horse's mouth, the design and full description is in "Uncle Dave Gingery's Shop Notebook" by Vincent Gingery.

I think it costs about $7, and though not a big book, is definitely worth the price for the bench construction details alone.

NormanV:
I was a DT teacher, before I retired three years ago, but not in UK so I didn't have to follow the British National Curriculum. I had the kids doing wood turning and making proper stuff. I think that they mostly enjoyed it and learned something. I have heard that my successor has them doing written work most of the time.

vtsteam:
Drives me nuts, Norman. I'm on the district school board and it's useless fighting the changes. People who don't know how to use their hands other than to drive to a store or hold a cell phone are directing kids into total incapability. They fear manual work, and hope children will never have to sink to that level. I used to be angry, now I'm just sad. I see it's hopeless to change it at the school administration level.

To me a forum like this one preserves our skills, and our fascination and enjoyment in something well made. Problems overcome, design and execution, knowing how things work, what they are made of, and how they were made. People need that, and in fact want that. So here it is, a record of who we were, in this time, and what we made. In 20 years, most of us here will be gone. Remember what we did, if you're reading this then. And carry it on. You are as capable as you want to be.

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