Update on Brazil Project

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Scotty

Scotty

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Several months ago, a group from church went to Brazil to work with Central Brazil Mission. Some of you might remember that I mentioned earlier that I took a lathe and some kits and taught them to turn. Since September, we have sent a second lathe and two thousand pen kits for them to work on. These are teen-age boys who are doing this. Here is a link to some of their pens.
http://picasaweb.google.com.br/wesleykramos/FenixCanetas?feat=directlink
 
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They sure did great!

Now you need to plant another seed...maybe loose the center band play with different shapes. I am sure all it takes is giving them the idea and they'll run with it.

Hope you send them lots of extra tubes as well. :biggrin:

CONGRATS!!!
 
Scotty, I do remember your original post. Nice to here a great report on the progress of this project. Great work.
 
It does indeed give me a good feeling. I had a wonderful time with them, and want to go back in a couple of years. I am making and gathering display stands and cases for them now. They are trying to get their pens and scroll saw stuff into several little shops there.
 
Nice job. Any way you can find out what kind of wood they are using, there is one on each of the four corners that I want to know what it is.
 
Dave They use four woods most of the time: tucuma palm, arura, maracatiara(or muiracatiara), and moirapiranga. I am sure some guys on here know a more common name for some of this wood. I brought back a very small stash from each of these, and had them write names on each. The arura reminds me of walnut, smooth brown color. The tucuma is like black palm, and it caused me to break out when I turned it (lesson learned!). The maracatiara is the pretty grain. Moirapiranga is red. If you find out more common names, please let me know.
 
Scotty,
Very nice woods and good work those boys are doing.

Before I retired, I imported plywood from Brazil for the company I worked for... it was cheaper to buy by the container load, transport to Houston and clear customs than it was to drive around the corner to the Georgia Pacific warehouse to buy the same quantity of wood... and it was tighter and better plywood. Biggest problem was getting it loaded on the ships...
 
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