My 8 year old son's first lathe project

[woodwzrd]

So my son is studying Colonial America in school and they were given an assignment to make a replica of something colonial. Some of the examples were a model cabin, soap whittling or a colonial toy. He came to me the other day and asked me if I would help him make a cup and ball toy. Tonight we went out to the shop and I dug out a piece of poplar pallet runner and chucked it up. I helped him get it round and bore the cup. I then made a couple of passes across the blank with him and turned him loose. When he got all done he sanded it out with just 220 and put a light coat of BLO on it. I am pretty proud of him the design is all his.

[MarkJM]

get them started young, not a bad looking toy

[TurkeyAssassin]

Looks good!  Always great to start em' out young!

[hookedspur]

Very nice !! Great job Young Man   

[stone road turkey calls]

nice job young man, what will you make next?

[Hognutz]

Well done, young man. 

[Tail Feathers]

He's already better than I am on a lathe!

Well done.

[Flydown]

That looks great! Good Job! 

[mossy835]

Great to see a youth do something like this. Congratulations on a job well done.

[barry]

Nice! Another callmaker in training

[drenalinld]

Very nice. I used to be world class with one of those things....lol

[flintlock]

Very nice work!

[TRKYHTR]

Nice job son.

TRKYHTR

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[TClark]

That's awesome!!!