Thread: I bought my daughter a hammer

From another Dad, good on ya.

You're a hero, Bruno. I will take my example from you.

X

Hope my baby boy will like to work in the shop next to daddy too when the time comes. If so we'll try to have him cranking out razor scales in a few years!

Good stuff, we need more parents that teach their kids good things

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

Bytheway I've been meaning to ask you, have you ever been making knives?

Nope. Not going to either, apart from maybe a kiridashi for my mother.
I have to get one more commissioned restoration out of the door, and then I am going to try my hand at making razors. But not knives.

Good foryou Bruno. I have a neighbore across the road named Nathalie. She has a little boy named Elliott to whom I have been giving woodworking tools and lessons for the past four years. I began with a small but very sturdy workbench on which I mounted a vice. I have been giving him very high quality handtools at every opportunity. For Xmas he got a very nice set of bench chisels:Buy Pfeil® Swiss Made Butt Chisel Set of Four, PFEIL® SWISS MADE Butt Chisels, Which he loves. At nine years old the kid has better set of tools than alot of us big kids.

The quality certainly does not have to be the best, only reliable and serviceable. The great Japanese woodworker and professor of design, Toshio Odate told be personally that it is best to buy a ten dollar chisel and practice until you can make it perform like a hundred dollar chisel. Once that level has been reached, go out and buy a thirty dollar chisel.

It helps having a discount at Woodcraft.com

Now that she knows how to use that hammer why not have her peen some scales for you?

Originally Posted by Bruno

Nope. Not going to either, apart from maybe a kiridashi for my mother.
I have to get one more commissioned restoration out of the door, and then I am going to try my hand at making razors. But not knives.

Cool man. I'm doing knives before I do razors but the current one I'm working on is ground so thin that I'm considering turning it into a razor instead.

Originally Posted by icedog

Buy Pfeil® Swiss Made Butt Chisel Set of Four, PFEIL® SWISS MADE Butt Chisels

Those sound painful. But seriously, well played Bruno. I am a carpenter and sometimes wish i had to kid to share my skills with, but that probably wont happen.

I have to ask - "how much for the little girl?"


I could use somebody to fix my razors

That is an excellent story! Bravo Dad! I got our girls new beds a few years ago. It took me 2 hours to assemble the. Foolishly forgetting to take my tools out of their room when I finished; they had completely disassembled their beds in half an hour! I keep mine far away from the tools; however, after reading your story.... I might just change my stance!

Jeff