[Sca-cooks] Teaching in the SCA

[Saint Phlip]

As far as your husband teaching, go ahead and have him do it ;-) If we
all waited until we were experts, none of us would teach anything. Let
this be an impetus for him to get better, as blacksmithing is for me.

As far as looking for a smithing teacher, chances are I'm the best
person in the SCA to ask ;-) I am, and have been, working very hard at
getting all smiths, whatever their discipline or level, together in my
EKMetalsmiths List, and know a large number of mundane (as if any
blacksmith is truly mundane ;-) smiths as well- some of whom would be
delighted to get involved in SCA, if only on an occasional basis. Have
your 'crat contact me, and I'll see if I can get someone to go to the
event with their forge.

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Liz Wilson <ewilson618 at tx.rr.com> wrote:
> While this does not relate to teaching Cooking Classes, it does relate to teaching
> classes.
>
> I wanted to comment
> that the Barony of the Steppes here in the DFW area is holding King's College
> outside at an RV park, with teaching under pavillions, on June 14. 2008.  The
> autocrat for that event, Lady Viviana, was specifically looking for someone to
> teach blacksmithing.  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.  However, I signed him up to teach because
> he''s an excellent teacher and I am trying to get him back into the wood
> shop on a regular basis (I told him if he didn't start using all those great
> woodworking tools in the garage I was going to start selling them on Ebay!)
> I think it will be a great experience for him and hopefully for those taking
> the classes, but if anyone has any teaching tips they would like to share,
> please let me know.  I will look up Stefan's articles in the Florilegium.  I
> don't want to make him MORE nervous, however.  I'll be helping with kid's
> activities that day so other than doing a practice run with me at home,
> I don't think I will actually be taking his class to make room for others.
> Am I doing the right thing by getting him to teach even though he is not
> advanced?  I figured most in our area probably did not have a lathe or
> could not take a woodshop class from the fancy place in Addison, since
> those cost $100 to $150 I believe, for a full day's instruction.  This is
> a way for them to see and try woodturning without all the expense.
> If they have the money and time they can always go on and do the
> classes, buy the equipment, etc. but it's a big investment for a
> beginner, and one that I wouldn't want to make unless I had some
> already demonstrated apptitude for it.
>
> Christianna (aka Liz of Flower Mound)
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