02-26-2016, 01:44 PM
I always envy the guys who post pictures and stories of spending time in the shop with their young children. I have 2 grown girls and neither one ever willingly spent much time in my shop.
Well the other day, I get a request from my college age niece, asking for my help. She's taking an elective class in school on guitar building. She thought it would be something fun and wasn't quite prepared for all the work it required. The guitar is a wooden body electric, from a kit, not an acoustic, so the woodworking isn't terribly difficult, but my niece hasn't even touched a piece of sandpaper since Jr High Woodshop.
Anyway, she's determined to finish this project, but she needed to work on it outside of class, since she has fallen far behind schedule (she said it seems she's the only one in the class who hasn't done this before). She asked if she could use my shop for an hour or so Wednesday evening. No problem, says I. She brought the body with binding attached to the outer edge. She needed to scrape/plane it down smooth & flush and fill in a few small gaps with melted plastic, then do some sanding. I helped her, using a low angle block plane on the binding. She did most everything else. She'll be bringing it out again in the next week or so to work on it some more. It was fun and nice spending time with her. Now I know why you guys like to gloat about your kids working in the shop with you.
Well the other day, I get a request from my college age niece, asking for my help. She's taking an elective class in school on guitar building. She thought it would be something fun and wasn't quite prepared for all the work it required. The guitar is a wooden body electric, from a kit, not an acoustic, so the woodworking isn't terribly difficult, but my niece hasn't even touched a piece of sandpaper since Jr High Woodshop.
Anyway, she's determined to finish this project, but she needed to work on it outside of class, since she has fallen far behind schedule (she said it seems she's the only one in the class who hasn't done this before). She asked if she could use my shop for an hour or so Wednesday evening. No problem, says I. She brought the body with binding attached to the outer edge. She needed to scrape/plane it down smooth & flush and fill in a few small gaps with melted plastic, then do some sanding. I helped her, using a low angle block plane on the binding. She did most everything else. She'll be bringing it out again in the next week or so to work on it some more. It was fun and nice spending time with her. Now I know why you guys like to gloat about your kids working in the shop with you.
If you are going down a river at 2 mph and your canoe loses a wheel, how much pancake mix would you need to shingle your roof?
