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I wondered why the bus looked odd?

 

Then looked at the UK-- explained it well.

 

I have destroyed/burned/slashed all of the evidence I can find of my "younger times" .

 

I do have my first scrollsaw-- 1952 Craftsman-- still works (Very thin work only) and the drawknife that I usedto get in trouble for using! I do not know how old it is; but it was already old when I was very young.

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Haa Haa made you look, I was 14 years old in this school photo of the woodwork class and I'm in the front row the one holding a milk bottle holder, :lol: I loved woodwork even then because it was and still is additive. ;)

They're ALL holding milk bottle holders Roly. Are you in the very front row, if so which one??. I think the warfarin is thinning my BRAIN as well as my blood. :cry:  :cry:

Rob Roy.

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Did you wear the tie when working with power tools? Oh, wait, power tools weren't invented yet! :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

 

But seriously, I remember those days. I just wish I had known then what I know now.

Yes Dan, spot on. no power tools every joint made by hand the best way to learn.

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They're ALL holding milk bottle holders Roly. Are you in the very front row, if so which one??. I think the warfarin is thinning my BRAIN as well as my blood. :cry:  :cry:

Rob Roy.

Oh OK, I'm the one in the lumberjack shirt we were so poor then my mum bought clothes from the army & navy stores and some days I'd go to school dress as a Japanese Admiral. Only kidding :razz:  

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I bet your the one with his hands in front of his face. :shock:   Was it an all boys school or was it a case of boys had woodwork and girls had home economics?  :huh:

 

Marg

Marg it was a all boys school the girls were next door with a 8 foot high wall separating us, we use to take the bricks out to get to them. Good old days. :lol:  :lol:

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Oh OK, I'm the one in the lumberjack shirt we were so poor then my mum bought clothes from the army & navy stores and some days I'd go to school dress as a Japanese Admiral. Only kidding :razz:  

I had many a shirt made from printed feed sacks ,mom would get to select the rabbit feed based on the pattern design on the sacks ,we had dishes from soap power and oat meal too ,we lived the high life ,things were tough thru the war yrs.ration coupons and all .Many ,many had I a lot worse ,we were lucky !!

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Was almost afraid to open this one.  It is interesting to see how we all developed.  I remember my high school shop class where we were not allowed to use any power tools.  Had to make a clip board and was a bear planing the wood thin enough.  Still have one of a pair of walnut lamps and a galvanized tin dust pan that I use occasionally in my shop.

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Was almost afraid to open this one.  It is interesting to see how we all developed.  I remember my high school shop class where we were not allowed to use any power tools.  Had to make a clip board and was a bear planing the wood thin enough.  Still have one of a pair of walnut lamps and a galvanized tin dust pan that I use occasionally in my shop.

Yes Bob they don't know there born now with all them electric gadgets, which I now happen to fill my workshop with today the only hand saw I use now is a beautiful Japanese one, man they know how to master and craft hand tools. Roly

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i'm still looking for the japanese veneer plane to make sheets of paper thin wood to put on boxs with multi designs in them. :)

Kevin I've seen one of them in use at a show absolutely amazingly sharp tool.

Most tools these days you take them out the box and you have to sharpen them before use, not so with Japanese kit I have a pair of secateurs man there sharp and they stay sharp cost me £60 a bit of a difference from the £12 ones, it's another case of you get what you pay for.

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