Build request from grand daughter

Re: Build request from grand daughter

Garthinsandiego

Wonderful! Definitely an interest that needs to be encouraged. Although you will likely have a hard time keeping pace.

11 year olds do Excel?

David Yoho

Heck, these days there are 11-year-olds that can write the code for the program!!

Re: Build request from grand daughter

Dick Coers

I thought Excel was only good for spreadsheets, shows what I know.

Re: Build request from grand daughter

William Duffield

At least she could specify the cut list in Excel.

I have built a lot of stuff.....

Barry Irby

from plans worse than that.

Build it. Let her help.

Re: Build request from grand daughter *LINK*

Clint Searl

We got one just like that at IKEA for my wife. Beautifully engineered/constructed; put it together in less than two hours; she loves it; $449.00. But no dovetails.


http://https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/hemnes-desk-with-add-on-unit-gray-s49227587/

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Bill Blasic

Try this: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/hemnes-desk-with-add-on-unit-gray-s49227587/

considering the alternative

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

1. Spend $500 for an Ikea desk. In use within days. Instead of being in the shop I get to watch TV or listen to what passes for "news". Somewhere down the road it gets donated to Goodwill.

2. Granddaughter and I build a desk she designed, and for essentially no cost. I have all the materials on hand. Given her enthusiasm for previous builds she will treasure it forever. She will have it before school is out, but not before Christmas. It is deer season and the shop is idle.

I intend to make it in 4 parts- two ranks of drawers, a top and the storage unit that sits on the top. It will lend to future versatility and ease of moving. I began making similar desks decades ago, crudely for my tools and skills were limited. Yet one of these ancient ranks of drawers now sits painted in a daughter's kitchen in its 4th or 5th reincarnation. Two others are in use in a sewing room.

Another alternative. A good friend, the one that built the magnificent mahogany secretary in the Gallery, built a chest of drawers for a granddaughter. The quality is similar to the secretary, like awesome, but less elegant design that would appeal to modern tastes. The granddaughter decided after it was built that she didn't want it after all. Now that is a very sad tale.

Re: intro to productivity software...

david weaver

..starts in first or second grade at school here. The "learn to code" initiatives give them a very tiny taste of coding about a year after the kids learn to read.

It's not like they're writing macros or billing hours as part of class, but they do have to put together something very basic in each type of software (a brief slideshow with content for powerpoint).

I worry about kids' ability to focus as internet use has probably damaged mine, but I guess it's just a generational thing - they won't be taking "typing" class as a mandatory thing in 9th grade like we had to. I don't know if they'd have the attention span for it - a full semester of doing nothing but typing drills and computerized speed and accuracy tests.

Guessing that an 11 year-old girl these days is going to be "full sized" within about 2 years, so you can find plenty of guidance on proportions from just about anywhere.

That is a very sad tale.