Quoting Darrell & Kathy :
> Galoots
>
> Last week we were at the Pennsic War (gv).
> One of the recent fun pole lathe exercises I was working on
> was to reproduce the needle cases found on Henry VIII's ship
> the Mary Rose. These look like a double thread bobbin (to
> hold two spools of thread as it were) that has a stopped hole
> bored through the axis to hold needles. A whittled stopper
> plugs the hole. These things are VERY well received,
> especially by threadworkers, and doubly so when they see
> that I made them on a pole lathe.
Very very well received....
>
> One of the people in our camp (Barony of Thescorre) asked
> me to make him a leather texturing tool for a project he was
> trying to complete on site. He packed light so was missing
> a tool he needed for the job. It took me about 10 minutes
> to split, whittle, and file the tool to shape. Project completed,
> wife happy.
He was talking about going shopping and I said it could probably be
made faster than he could fetch a vehicle to go buy a 1/4" dowel. I
was expecting it to be turned or would have done it myself.
>
> Then I was tasked with producing a low, angled foot stool.
>
He neglected to mention using a throwing axe to clean off the bark side.
I was scheduled for 2 hand tool petting zoos, the first had scheduling
problems (times changed) but got a number of folks including a king
camped across the street who brought his (early grade school?) son over
in complete incognito. Clearly a galoot and teacher, son used to metal
spoke shave was trying a wooden one with daddy asking questions to get
him to figure out why he was having trouble.... A guy who did
Darrell's spoon class last year tried some planes this year. I hope to
get a couple porch newcomers, including a gentleman from Seattle
"temporarily" in Akron OH caring for an aging relative trying to figure
out local wood sources.
I managed to build the close grain blog take on St. Roy's folding
workbench on site in galoot time (took 3x the time expected). Only
apprentice was a tailess electrickery drill driver. For me a proper
bench is table height so it is multifunctional and lives in the trailer
waiting for next year.
Esther
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