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hopkirb

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When I was in high school in CA I took metal shop. This was in the early 60s. The shop teacher taught students how to sharpen a knife and how to make knives. My first knife I made from a old file. I put it in an oven to take the temper off. I took off the cutters and shaped it. Put it back in the oven until it was at the temp the teacher said, then used an oil quench. It holds a decent edge. If a teacher tried to teach these skills today he would loose his job and have parents try to have him jailed.
 
my 4th grade teacher had a shop in the class room. we taned dear hide did flint and steel set up a teapee in the play ground and spent the night. we made bird houses and as a class bult a black powder rifle and went out and shot it. i know what you mean, he motavated kids to get good grades by rewarding them with cool projects.
 
It amazes me that people will carry a knife that has an edge like a butterknife. When I was involved with Scouts I never could get the troops to sharpen their knives. They would complan that they couldn't cut rope and stuff but the senior leaders wouldn't teach them how to sharpen a knife. I think the leaders were afraid someone would hurt themself.
 
I think that i will try to get my shop teacher to let me make barstock out of 52100 so that i can grind it at home, Its a good class, he is letting me build a kmg clone :D
 
At the high school I graduated from a lot of people built small baseball bats, cudgels, and other skull cracking implements in wood shop. The school had/still has a clear "don't make weapons in shop class" policy, but it gets ignored frequently.
 
My shop teacher is awsome! He isnt allowed to let me make knives in school but he lets me have scrap steel.
 
My ninth grade shop class made crossbows! You could choose between varmit or target bolts. We made dart guns too and darts out of finishing nails! That was 1983. Can't do that today though!
 
In my senior year of high school I was bussed at lunch time to another school for first, gas welding, and then machine shop courses. For a time in the machine shop course I actually didn't have a teacher, but I had old timers there (so they could use the machinery for their own projects) who showed me what I needed to know. I made little cannons and sold them! :D
 
Wow.

We had no shop class whatsoever, and driver's ed was cut the semester after I graduated.
 
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