This past weekend I was exhibiting my wares at the NWA show in Saratoga Springs, New York. I gentleman and his Daughter approach our booth. She looked to be about 11 or 12 years old. As you can probably imagine I was a bit anxious when this kid walked right up and grabbed one of my infill planes, but it was immediately apparent that this was not the first time she had handled a plane.
She proceeded to pickup every plane on my table and take nice full width shavings. I was absolutely amazed and pleased. There is hope for the future of hand tool woodworking. I really wish I had gotten a picture of this occurrence.
Funny t-shirt observed at this show. In bold letters at the top of the shirt it proudly displayed what seem to be a very green statement for our environment:
"Earth First"
In small letters contained in parenthesis under that statement:
(we'll log the other planets later)
Have a good day,
Ron Brese