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Gritineye
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There is a brass toasting fork lurking with an indented tubular shaft soldered on to pierced sheet brass top and fork ends somewhere but it hasn't turned up yet.
This forged house name bracket was my finest work I think, still quite proud of it.
I wasn't so keen on the woodwork and only made this cigar box.
Don't be shy now, show us what you made before it was all deemed too dangerous.
This forged house name bracket was my finest work I think, still quite proud of it.
I wasn't so keen on the woodwork and only made this cigar box.
Don't be shy now, show us what you made before it was all deemed too dangerous.
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Can't remember having to do any paperwork in those classes..
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I made a screwdriver, a sharpened hook for invoices and used the planishing hammer to make a small bowl. I liked doing forge work.
We were all allowed to use any equipment, lathes, grinders, pillar drills etc with little or no supervision. We were shown how to use them and then we got on with it.
In the sixth form, instead of sports I did metalwork. During those classes children from the local educational needs school joined us and we cast aluminium bedside lamp bases.
We were all allowed to use any equipment, lathes, grinders, pillar drills etc with little or no supervision. We were shown how to use them and then we got on with it.
In the sixth form, instead of sports I did metalwork. During those classes children from the local educational needs school joined us and we cast aluminium bedside lamp bases.
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School projects, well that was over fifty years ago, and can't think of any I still have except a meat tenderizer that has seen better days; but it was made using sharp cutting bits using a Lathe & Shaper.
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I made some really exciting things, a bit of wood planed flat, parallel and square, it was called a plant label.
The following year we made exactly the same thing but with a hole in it, it was now a keyring.
Steam engine.
Never properly cleaned it up, as I was so chuffed that it worked. I took it home and just kept running it until the bottle of meths ran out. Base and flywheel were made from cast ali. The safety valve rusted up and leaked like a sieve, several bottles of meths later, so was replaced by a bolt.
Never properly cleaned it up, as I was so chuffed that it worked. I took it home and just kept running it until the bottle of meths ran out. Base and flywheel were made from cast ali. The safety valve rusted up and leaked like a sieve, several bottles of meths later, so was replaced by a bolt.
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I made a set of screwdrivers and punches. Pretty standard stuff.
Final metal project was a storage tray that went in the middle seat in a series landrover with a wooden box armrest thing on top. Upholstered it in vinyl.
No photos of that.
Screwdrivers and punches were in daily use until someone burnt my snap on roadbox out the floor of my truck and took the lot. Hope they had someone’s eye out
Didn’t really put much effort in at wood. Didn’t really interest me. Made the compulsory stuff - spatula, bird box, bird table, final thing was a pipe rack for my father. It seemed irrelevant if he smoked a pipe, or even if you had a father, that’s what you made!
My school was an old boys grammar and was quite fusty for the 90s
Final metal project was a storage tray that went in the middle seat in a series landrover with a wooden box armrest thing on top. Upholstered it in vinyl.
No photos of that.
Screwdrivers and punches were in daily use until someone burnt my snap on roadbox out the floor of my truck and took the lot. Hope they had someone’s eye out
Didn’t really put much effort in at wood. Didn’t really interest me. Made the compulsory stuff - spatula, bird box, bird table, final thing was a pipe rack for my father. It seemed irrelevant if he smoked a pipe, or even if you had a father, that’s what you made!
My school was an old boys grammar and was quite fusty for the 90s
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Absolute swinesI made a set of screwdrivers and punches. Pretty standard stuff.
Final metal project was a storage tray that went in the middle seat in a series landrover with a wooden box armrest thing on top. Upholstered it in vinyl.
No photos of that.
Screwdrivers and punches were in daily use until someone burnt my snap on roadbox out the floor of my truck and took the lot. Hope they had someone’s eye out
Didn’t really put much effort in at wood. Didn’t really interest me. Made the compulsory stuff - spatula, bird box, bird table, final thing was a pipe rack for my father. It seemed irrelevant if he smoked a pipe, or even if you had a father, that’s what you made!
My school was an old boys grammar and was quite fusty for the 90s
I didnt produce anything of note in woodwork as i was lazy & found the exercises boring, Metalwork i liked better & still have a centrepunch & pipegrips i made somewhere.
Strange that i became a boatbuilder & then a D&T technician! The state of practical subjects today is a national disgrace.
Strange that i became a boatbuilder & then a D&T technician! The state of practical subjects today is a national disgrace.
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My last school was 1975-80 so 5 years, first year or 2 you did all the practical stuff and then you had to choose which subject you carried on, they wouldn't let you do woodwork and metal work which really got up my nose, chose woodwork which I enjoyed so much so they wanted me to train up as a woodwork teacher which I turned down, still really annoyed even now that I couldn't do both woodwork & metal work!
The school had really nicely equipped classrooms for both metal work and wood work but it all got shut down and the gear sold off, a complete scandal if you ask me!
The school had really nicely equipped classrooms for both metal work and wood work but it all got shut down and the gear sold off, a complete scandal if you ask me!
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You were lucky ,at my Grammar School the nearest we got to anything constructive was the Model Aeroplane Society. Did learn Morse code which has turned out very handy in the last 63 years. -. --- -I made a set of screwdrivers and punches. Pretty standard stuff.
Final metal project was a storage tray that went in the middle seat in a series landrover with a wooden box armrest thing on top. Upholstered it in vinyl.
No photos of that.
Screwdrivers and punches were in daily use until someone burnt my snap on roadbox out the floor of my truck and took the lot. Hope they had someone’s eye out
Didn’t really put much effort in at wood. Didn’t really interest me. Made the compulsory stuff - spatula, bird box, bird table, final thing was a pipe rack for my father. It seemed irrelevant if he smoked a pipe, or even if you had a father, that’s what you made!
My school was an old boys grammar and was quite fusty for the 90s
Ten years ago the college where i worked shut its engineering & D&T department, three other schools locally did the same including the school i went to in the 70's. Many others had their workshops gutted in "new build refurbishments". I myself stripped the said college & three other school workshops bare & did pretty well out of them.
In just one year 1000 schools in Southern England closed their D&T departments permanently, & this happened across the country & has continued until this day. The Uni's that train D&T teachers were mainly Brighton & UCL, 7 years ago the first had 23 places available & filled just 7, the other had 20 places & filled just 3, subsequent years were little better. That means that D&T or practical subject teachers are retiring far faster than they can be trained & replaced.
So kids that have a practical bent & want to make things are being sold down the river.
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Thank the lord for grandads with workshops .
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The sickening thing about all this lack of hands on teaching is that all the nippers I have met,even from an early age (3/4 years )(their age not mine) all want to make stuff but it is crushed out of them by the system and pressure of work by their parents and teachers. Give the nipper 2 bits of wood and some sticky tape and it's a plane /car /boat etc.
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When I was at leaving school age you were virtually forced to go to university. They couldn’t understand why I didn’t want to go. The system either tried to coerce you into going to uni or labelled you as ‘thick’ in which case it was accepted you’d end up in some sort of factory job, given the area.
Partly I think it was an easy life for the teachers. Less input required to just move you along the chain than to find something constructive to do with you after 16.
Apprenticeships weren’t really a thing then. All the good proper ones had been binned and the modern apprenticeships hadn’t really got going.
Shame really. There must have been a few years of kids who missed out, or were set up to fail by going to uni and clearly out of their depth. My friend Richard was one.
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I deliberately failed my 11 plus exam cos I didn't want to go to grammar school, I was expected to pass it with ease, teacher wasn't very pleased with me to say the least.
I knew I wasn't academic in any way, unlike my brilliant brother, but I knew I did have enough intelligence to get through life.
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Now that I look back on my youth, I was lucky, I got to take two elective classes every semester from 7th grade and all the way through High School.
It began for for me in 1966, and I started with Metal Shop & Wood Shop. Metal shop because you could build a mini bike later on if you got to be an advanced student in 9th grade. I was also able to take classes in Electric Shop, Print Shop, Drafting, and Auto Shop during those years.
It began for for me in 1966, and I started with Metal Shop & Wood Shop. Metal shop because you could build a mini bike later on if you got to be an advanced student in 9th grade.
I was also able to take classes in Electric Shop, Print Shop, Drafting, and Auto Shop during those years. 