I as I was skiving leather with my 1in woodchisel I thought about how difficult things were before I knew how to sharpen things. That should be a basic tinkering lesson.
This gets brought up periodically. But we really should have a set of classes or class of basic skills for tinkers. Sharpening, sanding, gluing, we spend a lot of effort teaching in depth soldering, but not any time at all on sharpening.
What are some other basic tinker skills?
Woodshop does, or at least did, have a sharpening class.
Glueing would be super useful.
Like bonding cement and PVA 2 part epoxy and superglue are all applied totally different.
I only just recently figured out bonding cement.
I think that basic tinkering would be a great class or classes. I think that using a multimeter would be a good basic tinkering skill, even for those not directly interested in soldering. It’s a great tool for debugging/diagnosing/understanding electronics in general.
Polishing.
I was taking some rust off something and before I knew it I could see my face in it.
Happy tools.
Tool care. Like what gets oiled, what gets sharpened. What is a wire brush for…
You know the makerspace rule. The guy that has the idea is the one who has to bring it to fruition.
It’s like a class idea version of smelt it, delt it.
I’m only just now getting the hang of sharpening. I don’t have the hang of polishing. I thought I had a good handle on gluing until Ian Lightfoot’s head came off the third time…
Project management should be a class by itself. I can’t teach that. sob I had to get rid of pintrest…
Disassembly.
Dude, the art of getting something apart and putting it back together really eludes me… *furtive glances at the engine in the garage