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SMC Turner Interview - Jack Mincey
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How young are you? 50
Physical description (Family rated, please) 6” 4” tall, 240 pounds, thinning brown hair, and brown eyes which my wife says never look at the road but at the trees along the road. I just let her drive so I can pay better attention to the trees.
Where is home? I live a few miles from a small state university called Western Carolina University in Cullowhee N.C.
Where else have you lived? I’ve lived my whole life in the same neighborhood. The land I call home has been in our family since 1936, no sense missing with a good thing.
Family information: Married to my wonderful wife Trish for 25 years and have a 7-year-old son Jared. Jared has been a blessing in our life. We were 18 years into our marriage when Jared came into our lives. He has been well worth the wait.
Do you have a website? No website yet.
Vocation: High School Shop teacher for 27 years.
Shop Overview: Being a shop teacher over the last 27 years, I’ve always worked in my school shop. I just built my home shop a few years ago in preparation of my upcoming retirement. It took almost a year and a half to finish the building. I did all the work on it by myself except for pouring the slab and setting the trusses. For the slab, I hired a crew to do it, but for the trusses, I called in some friends for a hard day’s work. The only other help I had was from my then 5-year-old son. He had a blast driving nails in the soul plate but was able to help hold one end of the tape for long measurements. My shop is 26’ x 34’ with 12’ by 34’ upstairs.
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The upstairs has a photo tent in the back that works well. I hope to build a finish booth in the upstairs in the future. It is a turning shop with a table saw used for storage 99.9% of the time.
About the only thing left to build in my shop would be cabinets to go around the walls, but it’s hard for me to go back into the flat world even when the result would help my turning.
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Happy man with a great job and hobby!
Jack, It looks like the shop is ready for anything and I understand the need for cabinets and storage! I have almost 80 drawers in my shop and lots of cabinet space, but it is still not enough!
Having a child a bit later is not a bad thing, it usually give the couple time to get everything established and not have to struggle with everything a child comes with when you are young and broke! Your son will grow up with some of the best hobbies a boy could want, woodworking and it looks like some hunting gets done also buy the critters hanging in the shop!
Being a shop teacher must have been very rewarding over the years, I had some thoughts about it when I got out of highschool, but beer, girls and the great outdoors kept me from college. Did the military thing then 25 years of heating and AC work. On the same topic, my buddy who is a Tech Ed teacher (New age shop teacher) just got selected to be the schools new principal, he is not sure about the administrating part but a promotion is a promotion!
O.K. I am rambling like normal, so a very nice interview of a very accomplished turner!
Thanks for sharing your life with us,
Jeff :D