Kids work from school (Pics)

[stevebuk]

Bravo Rich, its really good to see what the next generation get up to in school and under your guidance they will be winners i am sure. :lol:

 

[boysie39]

Well done Rich, super job your doing. the bit about the nutter reminds me of being in Tech.school in 1953 here in Ireland. there was apart from the usual classes a Metal work class and a Woodworking class,which were different to us after primery school. It was only in these classes that the nutter element was to be seen. Most of the trouble was caused by one boy .Woodwork teacher could not handle him. Metalwork teacher was a big man and on the second week in the meyalwork class with a group around the forge nutter was acting as usual,Teacher caught him by scruff of the neck,pulled a piece of round bar which had one end reddened to about 6" and was 14" long and told him in front of everyone, IF you ever mess in my class again i'm going to shove the Cold end of this bar up your Arse and see how you get it down. Never another problem from anyone for the next two years .I was always a good boy in school after that :lol: :lol: :roll: :roll: REgards Boysie

 

[Bodrighy]

Well done Rich, super job your doing. the bit about the nutter reminds me of being in Tech.school in 1953 here in Ireland. there was apart from the usual classes a Metal work class and a Woodworking class,which were different to us after primery school. It was only in these classes that the nutter element was to be seen. Most of the trouble was caused by one boy .Woodwork teacher could not handle him. Metalwork teacher was a big man and on the second week in the meyalwork class with a group around the forge nutter was acting as usual,Teacher caught him by scruff of the neck,pulled a piece of round bar which had one end reddened to about 6" and was 14" long and told him in front of everyone, IF you ever mess in my class again i'm going to shove the Cold end of this bar up your **** and see how you get it down. Never another problem from anyone for the next two years .I was always a good boy in school after that :lol: :lol: :roll: :roll: REgards Boysie

Somehow i suspect the powers that be would frown on that nowadays....more's the pity IMHO :lol: I can remember getting a piece of wood thrown at me, by a teacher for fooling around with a chisel in one class. Never did me any harm...apart from a headache for the rest of the day.

pete

 

[Happy amateur]

Boysie

I also attended the Tec in Carrigallen Co Leitrim. 1960.
We had a woodwork teacher who used to get a length of wood 1" by 1" and we would get a whack over the knuckles if we did not behave.
I remember two teachers from that school. A Mr Deignan who I shall always be grateful for what he taught me and could silence a whole room with a look. and our woodwork teacher Mr Wall who had us build kitchen cabinets for his house and nearly turned me off woodwork for ever. Mind you he did takes us for hurley and we tended to get our own back.

Fred

 

[Steve Jones]

Rich,

It's really nice to see these kids being allowed to do turning in school, when I was at school all we were allowed to make in woodwork was wooden pencil cases with sliding perspex lids ( still got it somewhere ) and even then we weren't allowed to use any machinery and it was relentless weeks of hand sanding.
Funny you should mention that the girls are keen because when I was turning the spalted sycamore bowl in the other thread, my niece who's 9 was in the garage and she was fascinated asking questions etc, on the other hand my nephew who's 13 doesn't seem to be interested.
Please pass on my compliments to the kids the items are excellent.

Steve

 

[johnny.t.]

Rich,

It's really nice to see these kids being allowed to do turning in school, when I was at school all we were allowed to make in woodwork was wooden pencil cases with sliding perspex lids ( still got it somewhere ) and even then we weren't allowed to use any machinery and it was relentless weeks of hand sanding.

Mine was even worse , we weren't allowed to do anything remotly interesting. About the most exciting thing we ever got to make was a bottle opener from a pre cut metal middle and two precut wooden sides,already put together with a couple of dowels. Our bit only involved a file and sandpaper. Complete waste of time,everything I now know is self taught or picked up from seeing someone else do something.

That being said I left School at 16 in 1990, so I'm surprised to see that Rich gets to allow the kids in his classes to use anything,as I'm sure the H&S paranoia must have got worse.

Good on ya Rich, for giving these kids the experience of making something worthwhile and making it themselves. Its must give them a great feeling, you know the one we all get when we make something good...."Bloody hell,I did that"

JT

 

[jpt]

There are many reasons schools have stopped using lathes and a lot of other woodworking equipment.

At the school my wife works at it was a mixture of things, firstlly insurance. They could be covered for quite a large increase but there were a number of restrictions put on it such as having guards to protect the others in the class from flying wood, having a properlly qualified/trained teacher etc. All of which put it outside of their available budget.

The biggest reason seems to be the curiculum they no longer do woodworking it is now called design & technology or similar and encompasses a whole range of different things making something being the last and from what I can see the least part of it. A bit different to when I was in school back in the 60s.

There is one school I know off here that does use its lathes, they have 2 graduates the short bed is used purelly as a saning station with a big disc sander attached to it. But the long bed is used regulaly as a lathe.

Now comes the heartbreaker, about 3 years ago a new school opened in Hampton on the outskirts of Peterborough. It was built as part of a new development and was kitted out with state of the art equipment. Including a very nice DT wing, they have a dedicated metalworking area with a forge and a lot of very good equipment. A CAD/CAM system with a couple of laser/water cutting machines and a wood working room including a long bed VB36 which at the time cost over £6000 including all the bits and pieces.

To date most of the equipment has never been used including the VB36.

The reason is they concentrate on the CAD/CAM system and look at the process of design and manafacture and different materials.

We did a couple of evening classes there for adult ed but they wouldnt let us use the VB. We were talking to the head of DT on one of these evenings and they said they didnt know how to use the lathe so it was arranged that one of our members, a member of the RPT, would do some trianing for their staff, despite chasing them up nothing came of it, they had other priorities.

john

 

[mark sanger]

Great work. =D> =D>

 

[richburrow]

Some more bowls for you to have a look at, not mine, year 10 kids

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walnut

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maple

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olive

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mountain ash / I think

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Not turning but interesting none the less, a skateboard in the bag
not finished yet, hopefully done next week.

Great kids that are really keen, I have quite a few more bits and bobs that are not finished yet, will post as soon as.

Not posted for ages, I hope you are all well out there

Rich

 

[CHJ]

Great to see some constructive output from a school environment, must be great to work with them when they have enough focus to want to learn.

 

[Paul.J]

Great work Rich,and good to see.
Looks like you have some talented turners in your classes.
Keep the good work up kids.
The skateboard reminds me of the one i made for my younger brother when i was at school.I used a flat piece of Beech,shaped it and glued the kicktail on.I twas the main attraction at the time when it was displayed
I think he still as it somewhere :?

 

[wizer]

It really is great to see this work coming out of schools. I wish i'd had it available to me and I do hope my daughter has some creative options when she goes to school. Still she'll probably be sick of saw dust by then

What type of vacuum pump is that Rich?

 

[richburrow]

Thanks guys, that is the part of teaching that is really enjoyable, often crowd control is the main part :?

Wizer / hello there / it is the one in the rutlands catalouge.
Not 100% happy with it yet. The bag sealing system is not brilliant and I am getting a slight leak. I am sure i can sort this out some how but you want these things to work with out any tinkering dont you.
The pump is very powerful, it pulled that plywood over the kicktail with ease.

 

[wizer]

ello mate

So you reckon with a new bag it'd be a good pump? Do you think it could be adapted for vacuum chucking?

 

[richburrow]

The two bags you get are great it is the silly plastic tube sealing sleeve that is dodgy. I will send you a pic to show you what I mean when I next use it.
Not sure that it would be good for a vac chuck, you cant set the pressure so it just keeps sucking away, left on I am sure it would burn out.

 

[wizer]

cheers. I really think a vac chuck is high on my list of gadgets.

 

[stevebuk]

brilliant rich, those lads dont know how lucky they are, and under your guidance they will go far..

 

[richburrow]

3 sheets to the wind

for tom

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[stevebuk]

Dont look Tom, its the Dakota model aaghhhaggh.. :lol: