• It's time to cast your vote in the April 2025 Turning Challenge. (click here for details)
  • Congratulations to Steve Bonny for "A Book Holds What Time Lets Go" being selected as Turning of the Week for 28 April, 2025 (click here for details)
  • Welcome new registering member. Your username must be your real First and Last name (for example: John Doe). "Screen names" and "handles" are not allowed and your registration will be deleted if you don't use your real name. Also, do not use all caps nor all lower case.

Woodturning for Blind in Tampa

M

Malcolm Zander

Joined
Jul 18, 2010
Messages
51
Likes
1
Location
Ottawa Canada
During the 2013 annual symposium in Tampa 10 blind folk from the local Lighthouse For The Blind organisation attended a touch-and-feel session with some interesting turned pieces provided by a number of professional wood turners, and then they all turned a pen each in the Youth Room (first time they had ever even seen a lathe). There is an article about this experience by Andi Sullivan and Al Miller in the February 2014 American Woodturner.

Here is a video of this event, made by Mike Hou from the International Wood culture Society, which is now on the AAW Vimeo site:

http://vimeo.com/groups/205403/videos/81100469

I think he has done a very nice job of this video.
 
Very nicely done... Captures the feeling of the event very well.
 
Wonderful

Wonderful wonderful wonderful. It is such a good thing to see them enjoy and learn what we all love.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top