Carve a simple spatula for our first project using the basic knife and saw cuts. Two tools only.
Learn the paring cuts witha chisel as we do exercises 24 and 25 of the Teacher's Handbook of Sloyd. We are learning handtool woosworking as it was taught at the Naas school in 1891.
These are some of the books I have found useful.
Teacher’s Handbook of Sloyd by Otto Saloman
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Kindle https://amzn.to/4fjxhB8
Free Online https://archive.org/details/teachershandbook00salo/page/128/mode/2up?view=theater
Sloyd System of Woodworking by Saloman and Hoffman
https://amzn.to/3LDEnCO
The Guide to Woodworking With Kids by Doug Stowe
https://amzn.to/3So9uGu
Chisel Set
https://lddy.no/1kak0
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Working our way through the Teacher's Handbook of Sloyd to learn the skills needed to be a handtool woodworker. In this episode we learn to square and edge to a previously planed face.
These are some of the books I have found useful. If you choose to buy from these links I might receive a commission.
Teacher’s Handbook of Sloyd by Otto Saloman
Print Copy https://amzn.to/3YhIvjx
Kindle https://amzn.to/4fjxhB8
Free Online https://archive.org/details/teachershandbook00salo/page/128/mode/2up?view=theater
Sloyd System of Woodworking by Saloman and Hoffman
https://amzn.to/3LDEnCO
The Guide to Woodworking With Kids by Doug Stowe
https://amzn.to/3So9uGu
Making progress on my Dutch tool chest. Leaving the front open until I decide how to arrange the tools.
Based on a design by Doug Stowe and made from recycled construction lumber. This box features a swivel lid and eliminates the need for hinges. I'd love to know your thoughts and/ or suggestions.
One of my favorite quotes by Otto Salomon relates to why Sloyd education is so important. He said "The objects that the child makes are as useful as those made by the carpenter; but, unlike the work of the carpenter, the value of the child's work does not exist in them, but in the child that made them." What does this mean?
The aim of Sloyd is to develop the whole child. The benefits of an approach like this are many: patience, perseverance, creativity, problem solving as well as physical. By getting a child involved in a creative outlet such as woodworking you are helping them to grow into self-reliant and successful adults. When a professional woodworker makes an object, the value of the work is only measured by the value of the item created. How much the item can be sold for and whether or not a profit was made. But when a child makes an object the value goes deep and is based on what the child has learned. Helping a child to begin woodworking is an investment in their future that has ...
