The Woodworking Show 2003

Our Booth

 

Lil Builders Workshop

The Registration Area with two of our young customers.

Intently working on cutting out a design with our club members helping or supervising. Safety emphasized at all times.

Sometimes, you have to go to great heights to achieve a good position to be of help.

Sometimes, it was a parent-child experience at the saw.

Four saws were lined up along the back of the Workshop Area. From the saws, our promising woodworkers went to the finishing area to sand and paint their masterpieces.

By far, the most popular design with the boys was the sword. It also proved to be a good pattern to introduce them to the scroll saw. It incorporated many simple straight cuts and a few curves. The train engine was popular with the smaller boys.

Our young lady customers tended to select the sea horses, cats, and flower designs. By special request, some had a hand drawn horse’s head drawn by one of our members.

Totals – 93 woodworking apprentices on Saturday

33 woodworking apprentices on Sunday.

Donated to The Indianapolis Boys and Girls Club - $389

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Our presence at The Woodworking Show coordinated by Bill Stillman and Bob Shaw with help from the membership to haul, set up, man, smile, talk, and teach.

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A NOTE OF THANKS

From: Deb Speer
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 1:21 PM
To: president@homecraftsmenforum.com
Subject: Woodworking Show Thanks

Thank you so much for having the Little Builders Workshop at the Woodworking show. We have gone to the show for the last 8 years and brought our daughter with us. She was 2 months old at her first show. While she likes going to the show, this year was so much more special for her as she got to make something herself. She had so much fun, she made 2 projects. One of the first things she did after we got home from the show was pack her projects into her back pack to take them to school for Show & Tell. She is really excited that she got to use power tools.

I hope this continues at the woodworking show as it is a great way to introduce kids to a scroll saw. In fact, I had never even thought of letting her use our scroll saw. I just presumed she was too little. Now I know better. She saw puzzles on the display table for your organization and now wants to make some herself. Now we have to go to library for patterns.

Thank you again for your dedication and patience in helping kids do this. We had a wonderful time.

Deb Speer
mother of Emily Speer
we were there Sunday afternoon