#Accounting, #SlideRules, #penmanship, #shorthand, #typing, #telegraphy, and #carpentry were taught to school children in Burma, well into the 1980s. I think it would be socially beneficial to teach these skills to young American kids, today.

Basic accounting and personal finance are useful skills for adults, and indispensable for college kids wielding credit cards.

The slide rule endows the student with a keener understanding of various functions and, more importantly, always to check one's results, mentally.

Being able to write in a beautiful, cursive script with a fountain pen may now be but a party trick, but it still is an important social skill.

Shorthand offers a massive advantage in note taking. Given that every child learns to type social media posts well before they first learn to speak, proper typing technique should be taught to children, for efficiency, for preventing repetitive stress injuries, etc.

Telegraphy is valuable in aviation: VOR and NDB navigation aids transmit their identifiers in Morse code. And Morse code is still a thing in the amateur radio scene.

Teaching kids basic carpentry, like making a rough table, is of limited utility, but they will never forget that experience of making something out of raw materials.

Above all, these old skills are cool, at least in some circles. And if nothing else, these activities will surely keep them off social media.

The little extra firewood store is taking shape. Working on this on and off, between entire days of rain and other jobs.

It's made from leftover concrete beams on the bottom, some of the firewood logs we fetched (bark removed) and some welded scrap metal to join the two.

And some crude chainsaw + impact driver carpentry. Good enough for this.

Haven't got any logs long enough for the roof beams, so I'll join some, but this must wait until I have processed more of the log pile so I can find some of the right size and shape.

#Firewood #Sauna #Homestead #DIY #Carpentry

One more tip: where two panels come together into a flush butt joint, use a 1/16" round-over to ease the inside corners and make the seam intentional, rather than try to hide it.

#woodworking #carpentry

Watching a Fine Homebuilding video of a professional trim carpenter installing a modern oak panel wall. The number of actionable tips-per-minute is off the charts. I'm picking up so many good techniques. Here's one: use a pin nailer to tack a door jamb before pre-drilling and screwing. This ensures there's no shifting while tightening it all up.

free text version of the article: https://www.finehomebuilding.com/2025/01/17/that-modern-look

paywalled video: https://www.finehomebuilding.com/2025/06/02/making-and-installing-wood-wall-paneling

#woodworking #carpentry

Me: I'll just build some removable fences I can put on top of my garden beds to keep the critters out. Shouldn't be too bad and I can reuse all this extra wood and chicken wire I have..
Many days and trips to the hardware store later: I AM DONE!!! 🎉

Spoiler: I wasn't able to reuse the wood or chicken wire.

#gardening #garden #carpentry

A little window detailing today. These windows are pretty big, the sill is only about 16" above the floor. These "nickle gap" boards will be used in a few select places around the house, like the front entry. New window sill is an inch and a half deeper, which the cats will appreciate.

#woodworking #carpentry

Three #carpentry businesses in Bern show how the #timber sector can be sustainably transformed: they valorise regional raw materials in #fringe regions and offer forward-looking #workingmodels. This shows a research project by the Economic Geography group at #unibern: https://www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2025/modern_timber_industry_in_the_bern_region/index_eng.html

I don't know why, but this is always satisfying.

#woodworking #carpentry

Snuck in some time to finish my little closet molding project this afternoon. Locked it all together with some domino tenons and glue, so things will stay tight and square.

#Woodworking #Carpentry

Working on the cedar bench element of my raised-bed/pond combo this morning. Scrap paper planning here as I figure out the deets.

The persistence of imperial units in our construction supplies necessitates its continued use in our lives. I often employ metric where I can, but the imperial bits mean regular practice with fractions and related arithmetic. Sometimes decimal approaches are quick in there too though.

#Carpentry #joinery #woodworking

Finish the headliner and insulate the cabin ceiling on my Sailboat

https://youtu.be/HVtg9KWlAXI?si=7RAiJyqZHm-h3fE9

#sailboat #headliner #boatprojects #epoxy #insulation #carpentry

It's wet outside, so am doing inside work today. Have been in need of a BBQ table, so finally gathering scrap wood to build it.

A postage-stamp-sized plan/sketch will ensure I get there without changing my mind too much along the way.

Let's see what I end up with.

#DIY #carpentry #joinery #bbqTable

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Nail collection #carpentry

Latest #carpentry #paint experiment

Progress on the library project. One more wall to go and then some fine tuning and drywall touch up. I think my client already has enough books to fill all 3 walls and then some. #carpentry #renovation