[goodtomato]

Yep, still have mine.That was a great lesson plan.Skills learned in 8th grade and still applying them today!

[21twelve]

“Skills learned in 8th grade and still applying them today!”

Like always make sure you have plenty of bandaids around!

[goodtomato]

In High School we made a under the tabel vice. We cast the stock holding portion from aluminum and had to turn round stock into threads. I also made knock off “Hurst” T shifter knobs. I most have made 30 of them and sold them to classmates. I really enjoyed the foundry! I never took wood shop because the teachers were d—ks. Go figure I'm a carpenter today!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Same here. Woodworking in 7th grade (1963); metal working in 8th grade; full year of mechanical drawing in 9th grade. Still use all those skills every day.

I tried hard to get my son interested, but he only wanted to play sports. “But son, someday you’ll own a home and need to repair things around the house.”

“No Dad, I’ll hire somebody to do it.” We built a number of things together, but he didn’t build a passion like I had for working with your own hands and building things. Very sad.