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Parson

Parson

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I'm almost 50, but my high school art teacher remembered me when I contacted her a few months ago. When she saw my web site for the pens, she asked me to shlep my lathe and tools over to my old high school and show the students in the art club how I turn hunks of polyresin and wood into fine writing instruments.

I'll come back to this thread to tell you how it goes. I'm driving over today after lunch. Should be fun to see her again and teach a couple of kids how to turn some of the wood off a squared piece of soft pine I had laying around the shop.
 
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The 15 kids in the art club invited friends. Well over 30 students showed, and they were amazingly quiet and attentive as I cut away at a PR blank. They couldn't get their head around the fact that I was going to turn a hunk of plastic with a hole drilled in it into a beautiful pen with a glass-like finish.

Had their parents been there, I swear I could have sold a half dozen JET lathes on the spot! They loved it.

I then took a short piece of squared pine (cut out of a 2x4 I had in the garage) and put it on the lathe and said, "Who wants to turn wood?" Eight students, mostly girls, stepped up and learned how to make sawdust.

I would love to teach woodturning to kids some time. That would be a lot of fun.
 
Good job. It's always fun to get kids involved in something productive.
My grand daughter talked her woods teacher into starting a turning club after school. I've been asked to help coach. It's really rewarding seeing them work on their projects.
 
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