What has been built lately.

  Last week my ten year old Grandson stayed with us while going to Science Camp during the day time.  He is an avid builder, with Lego.

  This is a kit for a heavy lift helicopter, various support vehicles and a mountain that contains lava bombs.  The kit included more that 1100 parts and he followed pages of instructions while working for several hours to make these things.  It isn't wood working, but...it is making.  Our Grandson was here for six days and didn't once play a video game and only checked out You tube videos relating to his Lego building.  

wood burned lid with slight acrylic ink tinting.

  We had a busy week, one that ended with my wife catering a wedding for her niece and us ending up with the whole family ( six adults and four children 10,8,6,4) here for over night and brunch.  All I had time for was finishing my pencil box.  I flocked the inside and cut a small finger slot to give access to the lid.  Flocking is an easy and inexpensive way to finish the inside of box projects. Here is a 2 1/2 minute video that basically tells you all you need to know about flocking.   After the flock dried, and it does need 24 hours I sprayed the box with a couple of coats of varnish and it is done.  What I will do with it I don't know.

  The other quick knock off was a bbq grill scraper from left over cedar.  My brother needed a new scraper.  

A picture from our front yard, that explains why 

the outside is popular in this season.

  

Where Woodworkers Come From

  I have always liked fixing and making things. When I was a kid I took lots of things apart and tried to put them together, never once did I let lack of knowledge stop me from forging ahead.  Actually that still doesn't stop me.

  Attitudes, tastes and amusements are often shaped early in a person's life and a positive attitude toward maken' stuff needs to be instilled when a person is little.

   Kieran is 4 1/2 and getting to be a very serious and focused builder

  This is a playground for children to play on.  It wasn't long ago that Kieran was mostly interested in knocking down the things that other people built, now he is a builder himself.

   If we don't want our good tools to be scrapped once we are done with them we need to encourage the next generation to be builders.  Blocks are where builders begin.