"Knife Work In The School Room" from 1890/91...

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Hey all!

One of my favourite traditional woodworking advocates and bloggers Chris Schwarz put this up on his woodworking blog at http://blog.lostartpress.com/ and I thought it more than appropriate to cross-post onto my favourite traditional knife forum. This manual was written by George B. Kilbon for Milton Bradley Co and was published in 1890/91 for use in the school system during the grammar grades. I hope you all find this as interesting (in both function and as a social commentary of the day) as I did!

Check it out the entire thing on google books...

http://books.google.ca/books?id=v45EY1rN1LcC&pg=PA1&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false


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So, I cut myself with knives because I never took this course in school? Maybe I should fix that...
 
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I have to admit, and please don't turn me in, but a couple weeks ago I gave my middle school students knives and taught them to whittle whistles out of tree branches. Oddly, it wasn't the knives in the hands of kids that was a problem...it was a room full of whistles. Below is the example I made using my Rough Rider Canoe ;)

 
Thanks for the link to the Lost Art Press blog!
Lots of neat articles :thumbup:
 
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