Don,

Welcome to the porch.  What I enjoy here is the nuggets of information about 
how to use, clean and sharpen the tools that I seem to want to bring home. 
They have helped me to progress from an uncertain amateur to a somewhat more 
confident amateur.  I still have to allocate time and wood for the 
inevitable mistakes.

Your comment about your sons--my dad had two sons too, and lots of tools. 
>From the time I can remember he always had a workbench and tools for us. 
Including a vise.  Ours were really oldies, painted bright colors so they 
could be found easily when we left them outside.  I spent a lot of happy 
time down in our basement working on my projects.

The side effect was that it (mostly) kept us out of his tools.  I know some 
of his screwdrivers, wrenches and pliers were fair game, and when we needed 
a sharp chisel his got "borrowed" but most of his tools weren't disturbed.

Have some happy times with those guys, and give 'em room to grow.

Walt Cheever
Doing house chores instead of shop time today.

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