I always run into it when cleaning my shop, I always set it aside with fond memories, and it always ends up in a different place since the day it was shaped 7 years ago. When my oldest daughter was 6 years old, she came into the shop, and wanted something to do, I set her about a plank of poplar with a small Stanley No. 12-975 bullnose plane. She literally spent hours on that piece of poplar that day 7 years ago. And every now and then, for the weeks following she would come into the shop and put that plank in the vise, and go about planing it, those tiny shaving falling to the floor from her small little hands. I still have it today, and it still just keeps popping up whenever I clean the shop. I took this pic today. I put aside again, in it's umpteenth location, and for years to come, I will keep on transferring it from corner to corner each time I clean up the shop. I just cannot throw it away.

 

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker

Things like that you don't throw away. Memories!!!!!

 

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Harry Brink
Bulldog Woodworking
Montana

Definitely something to keep and maybe pass on to her one day.

 

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Greg
http://www.thesawdustfactory.net/

Thanks guys, so ya'll feel me then! Thanks.

 

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker

Yep, that's the good stuff.  

 

SQ

 

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It it can't be fixed with glue and sawdust - it's not worth fixing.

Frame it & give it to her on her wedding day.

 

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I just keep hammering away.

You don't throw stuff like that away Silly, that is the important stuff that builds memories and it certainly never leaves the kids.

 

I see that in my daughter, ever since she was old enough to walk, I took her on walks about the farm. Her mother and I have since divorced, and her mother wishes she could smote me from the earth, but no matter what she says and does, she just can't kill the bond my daughter and I have. Just yesterday we went for a walk, by all accounts 3 miles through logging country, fields and roads. At age 5 she walked every step by herself, because that was how she was brought up.

 

Even if the little ones do not remember that time spent with them, a bond develops that cannot be taken away. So keep that board...always!

 

Thanks guys, my sentiment exactly. Your raising your girl right Travis, good job man.

 

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker