On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:58:38 +0700, John wrote:

In addition, I might comment, the high school I attended, in a little
pokey town in up-state New England, had a fully equipped woodworking
and machine shop and the "Industrial Arts" students learned pattern
making and machine shop theory and practice. They actually
manufactured, in a small way, band saws, wood plainers and jointers
and bench grinders, which were sold through local hardware shops. Not
everyone has a home workshop or is a skilled pattern maker to say
nothing of a master-machinist.


And those days are long long gone virtually everywhere in the US.

Even the very high quality schools in my area..funded with oil company
money..have no shop classes anymore.

Gunner


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