[Sca-cooks] Teaching in the SCA

[Terry Decker]

Power tools are the modern equivalent of a shop full of assistants.  Doing 
things in a true Medieval or Renaissance manner requires a lot of skilled 
and unskilled manpower.

If he's intermediate, teach a course in basics.  The beginners will learn 
something and the skilled craftsmen will be able to evaluate his woodworking 
and teaching techniques.

Bear

> My husband and I are new to the SCA but he does
> woodworking so he is teaching a beginning wood turning class on making
> spindles.  While woodturning was period and we will have a handout about 
> it,
> he uses modern electric equipment as do most people as far as I know.  He
> is a little nervous about teaching because he is at intermediate level, 
> not
> advanced, and he had shoulder surgery last year so he hasn't done a lot
> of wood turning in the past year.
>
> Christianna (aka Liz of Flower Mound)