03-24-2019, 06:15 AM
"Woodshop? That's all about dangerous sharp instruments that might kill a child"
The funny thing is, my High School was constructed with an indoor rifle range in the basement. It also had a smoking area for students.
They were different times.
Regarding woodworking, I was picking something up at Aloha Air Cargo and there was a guy there crating up a huge wooden table. I asked him if he made it, and he replied yes, it was mango wood and he explained how it had no hardware and was held together by custom joints and gravity. He knew a guy who worked for the county and would get phone calls when they were taking down big trees so he could harvest the wood. He sells mainly to resorts but this particular table was going to some rich lady on Kauai. I asked, would he mind telling me how much a table like that went for? He told me that she wanted a big mango table and asked him how much it would cost, so he came up with a figure he thought was so large that he wouldn't have to make the table, $30,000.00, and her next question was when could she get it? I wonder if she would have paid $75,000.00 ?
The funny thing is, my High School was constructed with an indoor rifle range in the basement. It also had a smoking area for students.
They were different times.
Regarding woodworking, I was picking something up at Aloha Air Cargo and there was a guy there crating up a huge wooden table. I asked him if he made it, and he replied yes, it was mango wood and he explained how it had no hardware and was held together by custom joints and gravity. He knew a guy who worked for the county and would get phone calls when they were taking down big trees so he could harvest the wood. He sells mainly to resorts but this particular table was going to some rich lady on Kauai. I asked, would he mind telling me how much a table like that went for? He told me that she wanted a big mango table and asked him how much it would cost, so he came up with a figure he thought was so large that he wouldn't have to make the table, $30,000.00, and her next question was when could she get it? I wonder if she would have paid $75,000.00 ?