Ghosts of Christmas Future #5: What wood you do?

Sounds like it will be a challenge. I’m glad that your wife is in agreement – That way you are not out standing in the cold alone.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I think it is wonderful – coming from a woodworker to future woodworker
AND it also sounds like it means time in the shop with you. Priceless. (oh, you said that. )

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

My kids would likely kill me with it- then toss it into the woodburner. They don’t care for woodworking. Neither does Len. But it would be a nice gift idea for a budding woodworker. I ain’t got nun them in this ‘ere ‘ouse. Nope. None. Zero. zip. zilch. ;)

-- Homer : "Oh, and how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain."

Nice for the right person. My kids show no interest. So to them, not so much.
But the shop time with Dad is one of the coolest things I can think of.
I prefer maple :)

Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

My kids wood love it.
So would all of my family.
Thanks for the idea.
I wonder if I will get away with it for HTMBO? :)
Great idea.

Jamie

-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

that will be the best suicide article in the news paper in the next ten years ….LOL
I wuold not dare to pull this trick …even thow my daughter love to spend time in the shop with me

but for the right person …yes

Merry chrismas to you and your fammely
Dennis

If it’s the only gift (besides socks and underwear) I think you’re treading on thin ice. As an extra gift it has great potential. I might add a note that your time is her time in the shop to help her with whatever she wants to make.
I once gave my wife a beautiful block of maple burl with a note that a exquisite bowl was hidden inside and any competent woodturner (a job I volunteered for) could release the bowl. I had been working on gifts for the rest of the family and hadn’t been able to get to hers. She took it well but I was glad I had other presents for her under the tree.

-- Ken in Sharbot Lake, Ontario

The closest I have come was to pre-cut up some bird houses for my grand sons. Did all the cutting and drilled the hole. Supplied nails and sandpaper, and blueprint. They had their dads help assemble them. (All were a little young to attempt without guidance.)

They loved them.

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

Great idea. I’m sure whatever comes of it, it will be terrific.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Now scrappy- that’s a pretty cool idea- make a pre-fab kit and force their parents to participate. :)

-- Homer : "Oh, and how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain."

I never got Christmas presents as a child, but even I would have thought that was one crappy gift. COME ON PEOPLE! As mature adults we see it as something good, something that’ll build character, something that’ll be a great memory to cherish forever. But a kid will just see a square foot of wood.

Kid’s don’t want memories, they want I-Pods.

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