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I am a woodworking instructor for Los Angeles city Schools. I am always trying to keep the students interested and excited about woodworking. Does anyone have a sourse for high quality metal name labels for students projects that are made in the United States?
Also does anyone who has experience in teaching high School woodworking have any outstanding, different, challenging projects for the 9-12 grades?
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Bob
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Bob,
I have never done this but there was an article in the July 2002 Wood magazine about photo etching brass to make nameplates. Basically it is acid etching of a nameplate on thin brass and then cutting it out on a scroll saw.
Glad to see that there are still schools with shop classes. I built a steel broadsword in my HS shop class, shows how long ago I went to school!
Speaker cases and CD cabinets are about the only wood things I can imagine a student today being interested in, assuming you don't let them make bongs and condom wallets.
In metal class we made Zip Guns..EDIT:: OK I lived in LA at the time..
Edited 10/21/2005 2:26 pm by WillGeorge
In 9th grade metals it was turning brass hash pipes.John O'Connell - JKO Handcrafted Woodworking
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We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
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Metal nameplates are easy to get at trophy shops. They usually have graphics you can pick from, and are used to short runs with custom touches (name) per item.
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