 This photo is of my in the Academy of the Shopsmith "Boston" store, in Chelmsford MA in 1987. Notice the mirror over my head which we used for our seminars. I was in the middle of building two torche lamps from A Wood Magazine plan. Something about the plan looked odd to me, but I didn't know about wood movement like I do today, so I pressed-on. These lamps lasted about 4 years before they fell apart! Wood movement is a powerful force!  This was an eye opening experience in TV production. I learned that what the homeowner wants is secondary to what the advertisers want. Maybe I'll share more latter.  This is me and Terry and a class in the Dayton Ohio Academy around 1993. Terry was the first of the "Shopsmith Master Woodworkers" to come out of the Dayton Academy.   Like my workbench?  This is my boy, who I call "Boy". Seth is 24 now and is a seminarian at Liberty University. Here he was in 1998 turning a project for his Industrial Arts class on our Mark V. Actually, the tool in his hand was the project he made. He produced a folding, double-ended lathe tool with a skew on one end and a gouge on the other! A very clever design that would have been ideal for the traveling turner.  More to come. Scott |
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