English Bulldog

[Magnus Jensen]

Hi everybody, I just have to post this picture!

One day a few weeks ago my son Jesper came to me and said "hey dad I want to do some engraving".
He has never shown any interest of engraving before, only for stonesetting (that what I do for a living).
Well since he is only 9 years old I was not sure that he could handle the GraverMach and understand how to make it work properbly.
But lets give it a try.
I started out with a deep demo of how it works and haw to tune it and what to think of. Just like I do with my students in the stonsetting classes I give.

STUPID ME!!!!!!!!!!! (a typical grown up thing to do)

He told me to dropp it!! And of course he has seen me doing this a number of time so this where no news for him.
So instead of teaching we adjustid the hight of the chair and vise gave him a steel plate with a design he chosed and left him on his own.

Then after a while he came in to me and wanted to showe me what he had done, and I was prepared to give home kind and good words for some scratches.
And instead he showed me this!!!!
Remember that he has never ever used a graver!

Magnus Jensen
(a really proud dad)

 

[jlseymour]

That's great, nothing like your Son's taking an interest in what you do and wanting to learn more...
Jerry

 

[Weldon47]

WOW! I know you are proud, I would be too. That is really awesome work & when you take his age into consideration along with it being the first time he used the tool, it is phenomenal!
I hope he stays interested!!

I learned to engrave from my dad!
WL

 

[KCSteve]

Great job!

It looks like he quickly figured out what he could (currently) do with the graver and built a design around it.

That's a recipe for success that is.

Looking forward to seeing his future endevours.

BTW, if he gets interested enough that new GraverSmith seems like just the ticket for an 'assistant' engraver.

 

[Ron Smith]

Hey Magnus, he hasn't discovered girls yet.....................Ha Ha. You might lose him a little further down the road...........but he will probably come back to it later. Looks like good hand eye coordination and talent to me..........Keep him away from the girls. Heeheehee

 

[pappy]

Wow, Magnus, he really did a great job! If you can get him to keep up with it maybe you can get another Steve Lindsay or Marcus Hunt, I belive they both worked with their fathers. I learned to work on cars, plumbing, electricity, and carpentry from my Dad. I surpassed his skills, but he started me off at an early age and that gave me the time to improve my skills before I was out of high school. He had to work for a living, but I had summers off to learn. Your son is off to a great start!! Good luck!!!

 

[monk]

i'm still tryin to be that good ! i taught my daughter at a very early age to do machine work. she did this well for about 2 years. i was about to intro her to the gravermeister. instead she introduced me to a boy. she lost interest in engraving, but i now have two really swell grand kids ! that's life.

 

[Marrinan]

Would make a tarific buckle-Fred

 

[Jordi]

I bet he will soon be better than his father!
Take care!

 

[Tom Curran]

He will learn the technique as he goes along....

But what impressed me the most is the quality of his drawing. He has a great sense of proportion and spatial relationships....something that I struggle with at 55 yrs.....so congrats to him!

Tom