Leland wants to know:
 >>So is Jon Twentyfive now?  The story makes me laugh because he sounds 
just
like you, except he enjoyed getting paid at a much earlier age.<<

He'll be 40 in June! (I got a early start with wood and with kids) Let's 
see, I think he was about 10 when he was selling his turnings. I think I 
was about the same when my dad sent me across the street to fix a picket 
in our neighbor's fence. The first job I know I got paid for because 
when my dad passed away and I was going through his files I found the 
job sheet. Got paid a dollar sixty five. Anyway, when Jon and I wrote 
the article for Fine Woodworking he was 14. I split the $300 payment 
with him, even up. I recall taking him out to lunch, handing him the 
published issue, and a manila cash envelope stuffed with fives and ones, 
it was about an inch thick and his eyes really bugged on that one.

 >>When did
you start him on documentation and files?<<

I didn't push him on documentation in the shop, because he was busy 
documenting in other directions. When he was ten I showed him how to 
touch-type and he picked right up on it. He was typing daily, up early 
before school, writing science fiction stories. He called it 'typing' 
but really it was writing. When he was 13 he had a short science piece 
published in Discovery Magazine, and a longer technical piece in a 
sci-fi gaming magazine. By the time those came out in print he was 
working on sci-fi stories and a novel, which he never got around to 
publishing because he got into learning languages. You know how kids are 
when discovering their talents and place in the world.

   >>How do I get to the FW Archives?<<

The lathe article was reprinted in Fine Woodworking on Spindle Turning. 
Taunton Press, 1987, which you might have on your shelf. WorldCat shows 
it is not at a library near you. This is the problem with the 'big guns' 
publishers, a piece drifts out of print and they are no longer 
interested. I guess it's time to self-publish this one and get it back 
out in the world instead of mouldering away here in my files.

John

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