Passing the Addiction on....

[Rojo22]

Well my buddy of almost 30 years has been collecting turning stuff for the past year, in order to try our addiction. Last night after a previous session of showing him how to cut, drill and mill the ends of the blanks, we got down to "business". We took blanks that he had completed from start to finish and coached him through his first cigar pen! He loves the Alan Lacer skew, and he had chips flying and a big ole' grin on his face. At the end of the session, he had completed a walnut cigar pen, that he started from a blank, and turned and assembled all on his own!

I left about 11pm, and got a phone call at work this morning from him. He got so excited after I left, he turned two more pen bodies. He then proceeded to assemble both cigar kits backwards! I just got back from Woodcraft with a disassembly tool that I plan on delivering tonight, and demonstrating the proper techniques of disassembling. I had to read a book about disassembly, because you know, I never have put a cigar kit together backwards.....LOL.....

I got a big kick out of "passing" the addiction on to another person. It is more fun than turning the perfect pen!

 

[rdunn12]

I got a big kick out of "passing" the addiction on to another person. It is more fun than turning the perfect pen!
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I believe you are right about that.Oh and I have'nt messed up on a Cigar either.[:I]Hehe.

 

[Robert Taylor]

i've gotten two grandson's and a granddaughter hooked. it is nice to see them want to do something besides play video games. the sixteen year old grandson is really hooked has made two dozen since christmas and has his own equipment now. the eight year old grandughter and a twelve year old grandson come every chance they get now. i even have a "woodworker" neighbor wanting to watch me make a pen as he has not done any turning. i think he will "hook" also. bob

 

[tbroye]

My 7 year old Grandson is going to start when he visits in August. We will have almost a month together so we have plenty of time. The other 3 grands will start when they are older. The 4 year old Grand daughter who LOML takes care every day spends many hours in the shop now working as she calls it. she plays with the shaving, cut off blanks bad tubes and any thing else I will give her. Now power tools or any thing sharp.
Tom

 

[Rojo22]

It is nice to hear the stories about younger people getting some exposure to the world of woodworking. I am a member of a local turning club, and a carving club, with our average membership age roughly 60+ years old it is very hard to get younger members involved at times. I remember my father "bodging" stuff together in the garage, and my grandfather doing some woodworking when I was younger, but was not exposed to it at a greater level. I remembered though how much joy it brought to both of them, and that is why I started with it.

I want to thank all of you who safely expose younger folks to woodworking! The seeds of knowledge and desire for woodworking may take a while to see some fruit and I may not be around to see it, but I am hopeful that they will continue on, and eventually they too will "pass it along".