New website

[thetimberkid]

Hey, you may have seen my previous post about my site. I am pleased to announce that http://thetimberkid.com/ is online

Thanks

Callum

 

[MikeG.]

Hey Callum,

are you going to be joining in the fun on this forum? If all of your posts are about your website it might just start to look like advertising......

 

[wizer]

I agree with Mike. Plus your website doesn't seem to have changed since you first posted it.

 

[thetimberkid]

Sorry guys, i'm just excited about my new site, I have had a look around the form and it seems like a great place!

Sorry for any misleading

Callum

 

[HeathRobinson]

Hi Callum,

What did you make when you were 6 years old? That's insane :lol: Least that's how the math checks out in my mind.

I may be wrong, but judging by your posts on here and by your website it looks as if you're looking to make some money and/or fame out of being a young wood worker. I mean there aren't that many personal websites that I know of that offer merchandise and few professional's websites that offer advertising space so this is the only conclusion I can draw and I wish you good luck with that if that is your plan. Genuinely.

This is what I am working up to though, is it really that unusual in 2008 to be a young woodworker? Seems sad really if so. Up until recently it was a bit of a right of passage where I come from. I am 28 now so was 13 when you were born and had been doing compulsory woodwork lessons in school since age 11. When I left school all the woodwork stuff was sold off and the lessons replaced with 'technology' lessons which focused more on computer aided design and engineering. Still worthwhile but it took away much of the manual work associated with pursuits such as woodwork.

Now, in my mind, and I may be completely alone in this, I feel that everybody, even people destined for sedentary office bound jobs should learn and possess some form of manual skill. It really builds character and respect for manual work. Is woodwork available in schools?

HeathR

 

[MIGNAL]

I think woodwork/metalwork has largely been replaced by CDT - craft, design, technology.

 

[Ironballs]

Chaps, bear in mind the lad is only 15, so a little enthusiasm is allowed - plus he's doing a lot more than I was at that age.

Good work so far Callum, keep it going. What are you working on at the minute?

Cheers

Damian

 

[HeathRobinson]

Ironballs, you're right. I should clarify my status as an absolute beginner at woodworking and that Callum has already built more things than I have - probably to a better standard too! I was just bemused by the site and direction it appeared to be going which then lead me to wonder about how unusual it is to be a 15 year old woodworker. No disparagement intended at all! Was just laying out how I got to the question of woodworking in schools today. Sorry if it was taken the wrong way.

 

[Digit]

Unusual now a days perhaps Heath but less so when I was 6 yrs old. My generation built everything starting at a very young age.
Granted my first woodworking tasks were more likely to have been 'ere lad, pass that ther 'hammer, or 'old the end a this, but not long after that I built my first crystal set as well.
But I was not unusual, Hobbies magazine was aimed at us doing that sort of thing.
Believe it or not they even explained how to make gunpowder. And yes I did!

Roy.

 

[Ironballs]

Hey, no problem, Christmas spirit and all that, don't want the lad being put off that's all. At my school you weren't allowed to do woodwork or metalwork beyond 13 unless you were in what the school called "the lower stream". You'd like to think it was seen as a proper craft/skill these days but I might be in dreamland.

I only picked it up again a couple of years ago and am sorry to have lost so many years, makes a pleasant change from the desk job

 

[jonny boy]

Hello Callum, If you genuinely have the enthusiasm you show for woodworking, you certainly have a bright future ahead. I just hope that the economic situation will eventually start to pick up again and the sooner the better. Keep up the good work.

jonathan.

 

[MikeG.]

Callum,

I haven't worked out whether you are American ("lumber" and your road-trip being clues), or English (you live in Nottingham).........?

 

[wizer]

Mike I think its because he frequents the US forums much more than the British. LumberJocks, The Woodwhisperer, etc. He gets a mention on WoodTalkOnline quite a bit.

 

[Digit]

Strangely though, when I was a kid the term was 'Lumber yard'.

Roy.

 

[9fingers]

Callum,

I haven't worked out whether you are American ("lumber" and your road-trip being clues), or English (you live in Nottingham).........?

13a sockets on view in the workshop shots might be a casting vote?

Why not ask Callum about the LBW rules :lol:

Bob

 

[thetimberkid]

ok to try and reply to as many of you as I can, when I was 6, I had a junior wood lathe and I used to make little things out of bolsa woo. Currently I am working on the bench at the back of my workshop, I will have pictures on soon I am English, I have a quite big following in america so sometimes I have to use words that are not used a lot in england.

Thanks for all the comments

Callum

 

[John. B]

I reckon he is over 30. He sounds too worldly wise to me


(It is spelt, Balsa Wood)

 

[wizer]

no, but I assume his Dad (or mum) is instrumental in his development. I don't think he was turning in the workshop on his own at 6yrs old.

 

[thetimberkid]

I was aloud to turn before, I was aloud to use scissors on my own lol. My parents are useless at anything practical :lol:

 

[alan wood]

Congratulations on your achievements to date. I'm very impressed.
cheers
Alan.