>> Incidently, I haven't been able to pry the one out of the
>> elder GIT's hands, so that may be how I avoid having
>> a collection of #40 scrubs - one is hers.
>> 
>> She's already reduced a 10x10 inch 4/4 birch board to 2x10, and
>> a big pile of curlies.
>
>Wait a minute, Kirk.  Are training the elder GIT to use a scrub plane on
the
>EDGE of a board? 

She's more of a carver than a woodworker, and she was fooling
around with the Emmert and the board, and the #40 was laying there,
and...well, you can see where this is going.

The object was really the curlies, I fear - she discovered that pushing them
onto the end of a mechanical pencil, then letting go would shoot them
across the garage...

I didn't want to spoil the spontaneous interest, so I let it go...my bad.

> This is clearly the wrong tool for th job and you need to
>get a #8 for this purpose.  Actually, get the #8 and you'll find that it is
>too big for a small galoot, so then you get a #7, and if that is still too
>big, go for a #6.  Before you know it you will be the caretaker of 2
>collections.

You're absolutely right.  Should I let her use the LN #8 or the Stanley Type
11
#8?  Yep, I have both.  She can handle a #8, as she just got her
blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do, and is an absolute rager on the boys when they 
do full-contact sparring.  They fear her, and she's plenty strong to manage
a #8, IOW.  Dad's most happy to see boys cringe in front of his little girl,
too ;-).

For #7's, I'll have to pull one out of the pile and fettle it up for her...

Which reminds me, I need to sharpen both #6's...

>Does this make you go twice as fast down the slope?

Faster, Faster, Galoot!  Rust hunt, rust hunt!

Kirk Hays
Cedar Mills, Orygun
Cruffler Galoot #1