Our club (New Mexico Woodturners) has several newer members. I'm starting to do some "structured mentoring," and would like help and suggestions.
Last month, I put an announcement in our newsletter, offering to do hands-on sharpening in my garage, with people signing up for 30 minute slots where they'd bring their tools, and we'd work on using my sharpening setup to sharpen spindle roughing gouges, skews, scrapers, and parting tools on the platform, and spindle gouges and bowl gouges on the V-arm and varigrind. Over the course of the morning, we had about 12 people get to sharpen, so I think that was pretty successful.
So: Given the limitations on a home shop (only one lathe), what would you all suggest for a beginner-friendly-and-useful mentoring workshop? I don't want to just talk--I want the members to have some hands-on work, but also scale so we can get as many folks as possible during a half-day session.
Thanks in advance for suggestions, ideas, etc.!
Hy
Last month, I put an announcement in our newsletter, offering to do hands-on sharpening in my garage, with people signing up for 30 minute slots where they'd bring their tools, and we'd work on using my sharpening setup to sharpen spindle roughing gouges, skews, scrapers, and parting tools on the platform, and spindle gouges and bowl gouges on the V-arm and varigrind. Over the course of the morning, we had about 12 people get to sharpen, so I think that was pretty successful.
So: Given the limitations on a home shop (only one lathe), what would you all suggest for a beginner-friendly-and-useful mentoring workshop? I don't want to just talk--I want the members to have some hands-on work, but also scale so we can get as many folks as possible during a half-day session.
Thanks in advance for suggestions, ideas, etc.!
Hy