In the paper today:
Dave Bakke: Woodworking helps blind man return to life
http://www.sj-r.com/homepage/x1959828801/Dave-Bakke-Woodworking-helps-blind-man-return-to-life
jt8
lotsa worse things happen to better people than me every day. –Snort
In the paper today:
http://www.sj-r.com/homepage/x1959828801/Dave-Bakke-Woodworking-helps-blind-man-return-to-life
jt8
lotsa worse things happen to better people than me every day. –Snort
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It's funny this should come up.
I was watching TCM the other day and there was a short in B&W of a fellow who was blind from birth, and his hobby was woodworking. It even showed a shot of him working his table saw. Evidently he was involved in the electronics industry somewhere.
This was during the '40's.
Made me shutter just to think of it!
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AaronR Construction
Vancouver, Canada
Be neat if the blind guy could get a copy of that video. his wife could describe it to him.
I shuddered thinking about running the table saw blind. jt8
lotsa worse things happen to better people than me every day. --Snort
It was a few years back, and I remember a guy on the the knots page posted about a woodworking class he ran for the "differently abled."
He was walking by the shop door one evening, heard the saw running, but saw that the lights were out. He opened the door to the shop and got ready to read the bozo running the saw the riot act. He flicked on the light.
His blind student was milling up lumber, safety glasses and hearing protection in place... in a pitch black room.
It may not be true, but it's a good story!
-t
I did some work on a house that was owned by a blind guy. It became obvious that it was important that what we did had to not only look good but it had to feel good as well. He had a small workshop with a radial arm saw, a braille tape measure and other tools which he used to woodwork. His projects looked very amateurish but he still had a complete set of fingers (LOL).
He even shingled the roof of one of the outbuildings himself. While he was working a local contractor drove by and told him that he was shingling "ALL WRONG". Which he was but he deserved full credit for chutzpah.
We have a blind piano tuner here in Oly who's been around for ages. He also does rebuilding and makes parts on the table saw and various stationary machines. He does NOT, however, drive the truck to jobs. He has a helper. "Have you ever seen Stevie Wonder's piano?""No.""Neither has he."
I saw Stevie Wonder shopping at a Tower Records once. He was flipping thru the rows of Cds and I thought 'um they are not covered in brail, who are you fooling?'
He is tall too.