Wow Lea, that's pretty amazing your Mother doing some chair caning. It would have really been tuff back then, with the little it paid, expectly for the hours she would have put in to it. That's the thing about caning, it is really time consuming. Great story. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee A. Stone To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning and repairing chairs
believe it or not, ask a local Sscouting group. 4 H group. if there is someone teaching this old profession. You see as long as folks collect old furnature and as long as most folks are to busy to do this chorse at times then the work will be there. Our mothr helped raise 8 kids on the money she made doing chairs and seats as well as sewing. that is another craft. being a seamstress which is fading away. Lee On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:22:50AM -0500, NLG wrote: > Where is a good place to learn the art of caneing? I see some basic instruction in my cursory search on the subject but didn't completely understand it. For instance, after you run the cane from front to back, when running the cane from side to side does it go over all the ones running front to back or do you weave it over and under? Any titles of recorded books, internet web sites, or pod casts would be appreciated. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lee A. Stone > To: Blind Handyman > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 08:55 > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] caning and repairing chairs > > > > > Kevin just said he is getting $1.00 per hole and when we first started > in the late 50's we were at 15 cents a hole and when I left home in 66 > Mom was getting 26 cents a hole. The point I would like to make if one > has the ability to use your hands and think. you might not get rich but > you could make some money not only caneing but repairing older > furniture. You might need some sighted help to scout out and find some > deals on chairs of different kinds but the money is out there as is > the ability to apply the skills as a blind handyman or handywoman. > Then you toss in some learned skills at your ability to haggle on price > and work that you would be willing to take in. Lee > > -- > The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature > is to build better mice. > Come and chat with me at #quietzone on irc.newnet.net > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > -- The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice. Come and chat with me at #quietzone on irc.newnet.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
