Nice one mercury - You're a great dad!
to you and your son. What a wonderful tradition within you family to pass on. He'll certainly get bit as we all have but as we all have earn a healthy respect for knives.
Fantastic! My Mother was horrified that I had blagged one of my Grandfather's old pocket knives off my Nan when I was about 12 or 13. Bearing in mind that my parents also bought me a set of fully functional woodworking tools when I was 9 or 10..... and the only instruction for safe use I got was the book they bought me the following year after the set was half wrecked Good to hear the young un is going to get some proper Dad/Son time to learn safe and proper knife usage. Well done mate
I'm happy for ya buddy and glad you shared this
Quote from: Aloha007 on October 14, 2016, 04:58:36 PM to you and your son. What a wonderful tradition within you family to pass on. He'll certainly get bit as we all have but as we all have earn a healthy respect for knives. Oh he'll get bit alright! I already warned him! I told him as I was showing him how to open it, that I cut myself with my own knife once a month, and that's true. Maybe not every single month, but I usually have a cut healing from something at any given time. The key for him will be learning from each "incident" and not repeating. You know, like I've closed my Leatherman on my thumb only once. And that second time. And again that third time. Quote from: 50ft-trad on October 14, 2016, 05:04:07 PMFantastic! My Mother was horrified that I had blagged one of my Grandfather's old pocket knives off my Nan when I was about 12 or 13. Bearing in mind that my parents also bought me a set of fully functional woodworking tools when I was 9 or 10..... and the only instruction for safe use I got was the book they bought me the following year after the set was half wrecked Good to hear the young un is going to get some proper Dad/Son time to learn safe and proper knife usage. Well done mate I'm all about tools, and he'll have his own set of real tools as soon as he's ready for them. It's easy to teach him since the little bugger is attached to my hip whenever we are home! I won't have to try hard to get some time with him, and he is interested in EVERYTHING Daddy does. Little fart followed me into the bathroom the other day thinking I was going in to fix something, when I was actually trying to use the toilet.
This will be remembered for decades go come.
Quote from: Mercury on October 14, 2016, 05:24:12 PMQuote from: Aloha007 on October 14, 2016, 04:58:36 PM to you and your son. What a wonderful tradition within you family to pass on. He'll certainly get bit as we all have but as we all have earn a healthy respect for knives. Oh he'll get bit alright! I already warned him! I told him as I was showing him how to open it, that I cut myself with my own knife once a month, and that's true. Maybe not every single month, but I usually have a cut healing from something at any given time. The key for him will be learning from each "incident" and not repeating. You know, like I've closed my Leatherman on my thumb only once. And that second time. And again that third time. Quote from: 50ft-trad on October 14, 2016, 05:04:07 PMFantastic! My Mother was horrified that I had blagged one of my Grandfather's old pocket knives off my Nan when I was about 12 or 13. Bearing in mind that my parents also bought me a set of fully functional woodworking tools when I was 9 or 10..... and the only instruction for safe use I got was the book they bought me the following year after the set was half wrecked Good to hear the young un is going to get some proper Dad/Son time to learn safe and proper knife usage. Well done mate I'm all about tools, and he'll have his own set of real tools as soon as he's ready for them. It's easy to teach him since the little bugger is attached to my hip whenever we are home! I won't have to try hard to get some time with him, and he is interested in EVERYTHING Daddy does. Little fart followed me into the bathroom the other day thinking I was going in to fix something, when I was actually trying to use the toilet. One thing you could do is teach him that if(when) a blade closes on him, never to pull away. That's what cuts. Instead, tell him to remain calm and slowly open the blade to free himself. You can even show him how to do it.This is also valid for everyone else. I know it's not easy. When a blade bits you, the instinct is to pull away from it. DON'T! You can try, using a rolled newspaper or the like to try this. Close a blade on it, see what happens when you pull and when you don't. When you feel confortable, do it on your finger. You can use a "blunter" knife at first. The idea is to get your body acquainted with the situation so it can react properly when the real accident happens.
Quote from: kkokkolis on October 14, 2016, 06:08:38 PMThis will be remembered for decades go come. Huh... what are you talking about?!
One thing you could do is teach him that if(when) a blade closes on him, never to pull away. That's what cuts. Instead, tell him to remain calm and slowly open the blade to free himself. You can even show him how to do it.This is also valid for everyone else. I know it's not easy. When a blade bits you, the instinct is to pull away from it. DON'T! You can try, using a rolled newspaper or the like to try this. Close a blade on it, see what happens when you pull and when you don't. When you feel confortable, do it on your finger. You can use a "blunter" knife at first. The idea is to get your body acquainted with the situation so it can react properly when the real accident happens.
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