It doesn't get any funnier

[wings]

OK, As I promised earlier, here is the project I made in Junior High School. I put a small editorial on each picture to point out the, at the time "minor acceptable flaws". Now I see the flaws and I laugh out loud. I hope you guys find the humor in these pics as much as I did. What's really scary is that this was the "best in the class!"

Wings

[Alex Franke]

Looks better than most of what I make today! Not bad for 13!

Looks like Ohio -- I guess it's supposed to, right?

I recently came across a little project I made in middle school. And I hate to be the one to break the bad news, but it does indeed get funnier. lol I'm embarrassed to even post a picture!

[TB Roye]

I used to have the projects I made in Wood Shop in Jr High. Over the years they have disapeared. I know my sister has Recipe book I did in print shop, hand setting the type, and there a jewlery box made in metal shop. The woodshop stuff was pretty bad. Your project looks better than the stuff I am doing now, although I am learning. You should make a copy of that projects now just for kicks. For some reason I found I was better working with metal than wood. I think that was because I loved race cars and other than the Morgan+4, most are made of metal.

Tom

[SARGE..g-47]

At least it took ambition to do that piece. I built a gun rack as many others. James Browing built a red-wood desk that he still has in his office. It was very well done indeed as James had the ambition in those early years.

Most of us would work on our little project till Mr. Patterson (the shop teacher) would exit for a coffee break to the teachers lounge as we were all supposed to stay busy. But.. boys are boys and the poplar stock would appear from no-where to meet the vertical belt sander. You could produce a police style billy club in a matter of fifteen minutes after you got the feel!

Still got about 150 of them I think and could probably come up with a bunch more with a few phone calls... anyone need a "billy club".. cheap!

[Mrk67mark]

Not bad for 13. I wish my school had a Wood Shop when I went. Are there still Wood Shop's in schools today?
Mark

[Bruce Cohen]

I put a small editorial on each picture to point out the, at the time "minor acceptable flaws". Now I see the flaws and I laugh out loud.

Wings

Floors, I don't see no stinkin floors.

Seriously, Not bad (actually real good) for a 13 year old.

Bruce

[jking]

It looks pretty good for jr high shop. The mismatched screws are a sign of your resourcefulness. Seriously, they're on the bottom of the piece...I don't think it's a big issue if they're mismatched.

[John Hunter]

Very nice.

[mater]

Yours looks better than what I made when I was in shop at 13. Somewhere along the way mine disappeared.

[Pappy]

Never took shop in school but I spent summers at the 'Y' and Boy's Club. The ravishes of time (About 45 years) have taken their tool but I display the bookends I made for my Mother when I was about the same age.



At one point I considered remaking the horses but decided to leave them like they are.

[crokett]

My mom still has a clay sculpture I made her in jr high. One of the legs broke below the knee during the first firing so when I painted it I painted that leg to look like the pant leg was folded up and I gave the statue a crutch.

[lrogers]

I think you did real good on that project. Thankfully, the projects I did in Jr High Scholl are all rotting in a landfill somewhere!

[LinuxRandal]

The fact that it inspired your woodworking passion makes it priceless.

If your woodshop was anything like ours, and the reason I believe some schools don't still have them, there were lines for the tools. Everyone doing the same projects, everyone almost at the same place then others, etc. I always felt rushed and unsafe at the power tools, and my projects showed it (better them then me).

Nowday's, I am not rushed by others peoples clocks, and I only have myself to blame or thank for my safety.

[ironhat]

Not bad for 13. I wish my school had a Wood Shop when I went. Are there still Wood Shop's in schools today?
Mark

Around her it's called Tech-Ed. The kids get a lesson on technology and then they build something applicable. They had to fold card stock paper in a way which would support 20#. In another they had to wrap an egg in a structure which would prevent breaking from a height of something like 5 feet. Once they made something out of wood. It was hexagonal clock - the teacher cut out the hexagons, the silk screen process was set up and registered so that all they needed to do was slide the clock blank into the registering tabs, lay down the screen frame with the pre-attached stencil and pull the squeegee across the stencil to print the face. Oh yea, they had to drill the action stem through the board and actually attach the hands to the clock action. Pretty grueling.