When in the 6th form (64-66) I helped out with the after-school woodwork club with another 6th former, who I believe became a crafts teacher. We would meet once a week for an hour or more with a genial woodwork teacher and a dozen or so younger pupils. (After my 2nd year debacle
I was very careful how I placed down the plane I was using!)
My project was to build a loudspeaker cabinet that would reproduce the 32ft pedal stop on the recordings of french organ music I borrowed from the record library. (It had to be big, trapeziodal in shape, made from solid elm, that fitted in the corner of our sitting room at home.)
I am grateful I learned how to join and finish wood, a skill that has come in very useful in renovating and furnishing the old houses we have lived in. The teacher may have been Mr Rogers?
