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Hi folks,
I know I haven't been very active lately so here is an update.
Still working mostly from home and being paid only 60% of my regular pay, but working full time !!!
A lady on Facebook asked if I was still giving fine woodworking courses and I replied that with Covid 19, I didn't think anyone would be interested. So I posted an add and WOW !!!! all of a sudden, everybody wants to learn woodworking ! So in the past the most I ever had was 3 students per course, now I had 2 courses of 4 students but one quit because he must take care of his children because his wife started a new job that includes weekends. So now I started last Saturday with one class from 9.00 AM 'til noon, and another from 1.00 PM 'til 4.00 PM. This Saturday we will all meet at the local sawmill to show them around.
Before the classes started I had accepted a couple of commissioned projects; a caterer- asked me for a tree with slabs as shelves ? when she sent me the picture I understood what she wanted, she picked it up last week and posted on Facebook that she loves it. One of her friends said it would make a good cat tree and now I have been asked if I can make more, darn, no time ! The other project was a stove top cover that the lady will have her logo called Spicy Kitchen added to what I made with a decal. See pictures below. Then my computer let go, after ten years of faithful service, it died, given the 60% salary I bought a reconditioned unit, not new, but as of tonight, I'm good to go. That was quite the task to re-install everything , they managed to salvage the hard drive from the old one and put it in a cover so I could use it to download a bunch of stuff, especially all my woodworking data base, I am so happy I was able to retrieve it.
Cheers to everyone and stay safe !
Dan
I know I haven't been very active lately so here is an update.
Still working mostly from home and being paid only 60% of my regular pay, but working full time !!!
A lady on Facebook asked if I was still giving fine woodworking courses and I replied that with Covid 19, I didn't think anyone would be interested. So I posted an add and WOW !!!! all of a sudden, everybody wants to learn woodworking ! So in the past the most I ever had was 3 students per course, now I had 2 courses of 4 students but one quit because he must take care of his children because his wife started a new job that includes weekends. So now I started last Saturday with one class from 9.00 AM 'til noon, and another from 1.00 PM 'til 4.00 PM. This Saturday we will all meet at the local sawmill to show them around.
Before the classes started I had accepted a couple of commissioned projects; a caterer- asked me for a tree with slabs as shelves ? when she sent me the picture I understood what she wanted, she picked it up last week and posted on Facebook that she loves it. One of her friends said it would make a good cat tree and now I have been asked if I can make more, darn, no time ! The other project was a stove top cover that the lady will have her logo called Spicy Kitchen added to what I made with a decal. See pictures below. Then my computer let go, after ten years of faithful service, it died, given the 60% salary I bought a reconditioned unit, not new, but as of tonight, I'm good to go. That was quite the task to re-install everything , they managed to salvage the hard drive from the old one and put it in a cover so I could use it to download a bunch of stuff, especially all my woodworking data base, I am so happy I was able to retrieve it.
Cheers to everyone and stay safe !
Dan
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