Fred Voorhees
12-06-2004, 8:48 PM
My son called over the weekend and said that he would be over early in the week to ask about something. Turns out that he wants to buid a small jewelry box for his current flame. Now, mind you he has never really done any woodworking, so naturally, I'm a bit excited at the thought of sharing some of this quality time with him. We went to my local rough sawn lumber vendor and I wanted to see if he had any ambrosia maple since that would really make for a nice looking project.
Sure enough, he did and we carted it home (along with a couple of lengths of nice red oak planking - heck, I just couldn't resist!) and earlier tonight, we began to mill the stuff down and get some of the pieces fabbed up for continuation this Wednesday night when he will be back to continue.
Being an avid fisherman, I at one time tried to get him interested in that. That was a fairly certain bust. It was pretty cool tonight letting him try his hand at some jointing and sawing on the tablesaw - showing him how to do things safely and giving him little hints to the few tricks I have accumulated over the years.
Pictured below is just a few of the pieces. Nice looking stuff - thanks to the "ambrosia worms".
Sure enough, he did and we carted it home (along with a couple of lengths of nice red oak planking - heck, I just couldn't resist!) and earlier tonight, we began to mill the stuff down and get some of the pieces fabbed up for continuation this Wednesday night when he will be back to continue.
Being an avid fisherman, I at one time tried to get him interested in that. That was a fairly certain bust. It was pretty cool tonight letting him try his hand at some jointing and sawing on the tablesaw - showing him how to do things safely and giving him little hints to the few tricks I have accumulated over the years.
Pictured below is just a few of the pieces. Nice looking stuff - thanks to the "ambrosia worms".