nrscroller Posted March 2, 2017 Report Posted March 2, 2017 Hi I was sitting having coffee this morning, thinking about a good friend I had who was reired at the time and I was still working who I met that did a lot of scrolling. He was a great guy to learn from and have coffee with often. It is too bad we don't have any other people that scroll in our town here. Oh Well, I am 71 now and it would have been fun to take a younger person under the wing and teach them a fun hobby, My grandsons are too much into other things and the grandaughters are way to young to do it. I guess I will just have the memories to remember my early days of scrolling and learning. Bill Scrolling Steve, Bfreeman, Lucky2 and 3 others 6 Quote
Scrappile Posted March 2, 2017 Report Posted March 2, 2017 Yep, it would be fun. I would like to have someone locally that scrolls, but I do not know how to find them. One thing I've noticed about turners (lathe) there are normally more of them and they seem to migrate together to form a club. I have friends thee do lathe work and they belong to an very active club. I kinda envy them, although I am not a real sociable person, it would be nice to talk face to face with another scroller more often than I get to. Heppnerguy is 100 miles away so that is a little far to just meet for coffee, at least very often. Quote
nrscroller Posted March 2, 2017 Author Report Posted March 2, 2017 Yeah somebody named Proscroller just sent me a private message and he is about 45 miles from me in Western Wisconsin. Quote
WayneMahler Posted March 2, 2017 Report Posted March 2, 2017 Bill I agree. It would be great to find someone local to share scrolling times with. The 2 grand children that live close are not interested, and the 4 in Texas are too far away. I have had the dream of passing all this off to someone younger so the hobby continues to grow. Maybe someday someone will come along. Quote
Dan Posted March 3, 2017 Report Posted March 3, 2017 Wow, this is so familiar. When I first started scrolling both my boys wanted to make an ornament. I pretty much got them started and they both finished a good ornament. That was it for them. I sometimes go to craft shows just to talk to other woodworkers even if I have to pay to get in. Quote
amazingkevin Posted March 3, 2017 Report Posted March 3, 2017 Hi I was sitting having coffee this morning, thinking about a good friend I had who was reired at the time and I was still working who I met that did a lot of scrolling. He was a great guy to learn from and have coffee with often. It is too bad we don't have any other people that scroll in our town here. Oh Well, I am 71 now and it would have been fun to take a younger person under the wing and teach them a fun hobby, My grandsons are too much into other things and the grandaughters are way to young to do it. I guess I will just have the memories to remember my early days of scrolling and learning. Bill I got two of my friends interested in it and gave them both saws to keep. One never keep with it and the other moved away Quote
ChelCass Posted March 3, 2017 Report Posted March 3, 2017 How about checking with the local high school and see if there are any kids there who would be interested. A lot of schools don't have wood shop any more . Bfreeman 1 Quote
tuner Posted March 3, 2017 Report Posted March 3, 2017 I had a thought.... What about older folks our age ( I'm 74) a lot of us have time to kill. Sold my saw about 5 years back but I miss enough to buy a new one. There's are no one in town scrolling maybe you could show some what there missing Quote
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