a new skill

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5 July 2018 at 15:10 #35222
mick70
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5 July 2018 at 15:10 #360877
mick70
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had the annual list of training and courses come out at work last night.

got us to talking at brewtime about learning new skills.

if you could choose one new skill or call it what you want what would it be?

i'd love to try blacksmithing and forging.
5 July 2018 at 15:19 #360878
mark costello 1
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CAD.
5 July 2018 at 15:36 #360881
Anonymous
Forging for me too – preferably banknotes

I'd like to be a much better welder than I am at the moment.

A skill I'd like to lose would be my ability to make scrap.

Andrew
5 July 2018 at 15:57 #360884
not done it yet
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I’ve already got more hobbies than I can handle. Perhaps clock repair for winter or CNC conversion for one of my mills.
5 July 2018 at 16:37 #360888
V8Eng
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A new skill:-

I would like an ability to find the time I need for all my outstanding jobs and hobbies which seem to be dropping further and further down the to do list!

Including moving the Myford from the old to new home before I get too old to use it.

Edited By V8Eng on 05/07/2018 16:41:30
5 July 2018 at 17:15 #360896
Nick Clarke 3
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The ability to lie convincingly when the boss asks is that work you are doing?
5 July 2018 at 17:37 #360911
Mick B1
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Hard and soft soldering.
5 July 2018 at 17:40 #360912
Howard Lewis
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Regret not having taken up two opportunities to go blacksmithing. Don't know of any day courses within reasonable distance so must delete from the bucket list.

Pity, so satisfying to make steel plastic at red heat. Can't think of a use for the average twisted shank poker or toasting fork, either

Howard
5 July 2018 at 17:50 #360918
Limpet
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The skill to travel backwards in time, partly to see the masters of old and also to give me time to actually finish something.

Lionel
5 July 2018 at 18:09 #360920
HOWARDT
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Slow down time. Like many others have more hobbies than time to do them all, fishing, photography, model,steam, woodwork to name a few. Did blacksmithing, foundry and welding as a side to ordinary machine shop work in my first year at technical college many moons ago. All have been useful over the years when visiting customers worksites. Perhaps now would like to improve my cnc programming skills.
5 July 2018 at 18:49 #360925
larry phelan 1
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Would love to learn how to produce something useful,without wrecking the machine in the process.

Blacksmithing- yes Cnc ?,no,not really.,real lathework ? yes.
5 July 2018 at 18:58 #360929
Ady1
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CAD a loco or a car in 60 minutes

sooperCAD
5 July 2018 at 19:41 #360936
Vic
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Posted by mick70 on 05/07/2018 15:10:04:

I'd love to try blacksmithing and forging.

I did a two and a half day Blacksmiths course with Peat Oberon and it was great fun. His enthusiasm for the craft is infectious!
5 July 2018 at 19:42 #360937
I.M. OUTAHERE
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The abillity to clone myself so i can send my double to work and i can stay home and play in the workshop 😄.

My problem is not learning new skills it is finding time to do so ..
5 July 2018 at 19:47 #360938
Jon Lawes
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Glassblowing, and potting on a wheel I reckon.
5 July 2018 at 19:48 #360939
Neil Wyatt
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Improve my welding (the bits on the left not the nice bit on the right)…

Neil
5 July 2018 at 19:53 #360942
Stuart Bridger
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Like many others too many hobbies and work is still getting in the way. Did a couple of hedgelaying courses a few year's back. That's a nice rural skill to keep going. Backed that up with a chainsaw skills course earlier this year. I had a go at welding during my apprenticeship many years ago. That would be nice to do properly. The same goes for CAD.
5 July 2018 at 20:58 #360948
richardandtracy
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Building in cob, or welding, or blacksmithing, or sand casting. Those are the skills I'd like most. I'd also like to do slightly less rustic brickwork and plastering. Finally, silver/gold smithing. Then glasswork, enamelling, stone cutting. Oh heck, just 'making anything really well' would do me.

Regards

Richard
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