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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is so strange. When I was a child we took my fathers hand saw and other tools from the garage and figured it out as it was the job of the scout, not the scouts parent. Explains a lot.[/quote]

Aren't you wonderful.  That's pretty sad your parents would not help.  That's pretty sad you wouldn't help your kids.  That explains a lot.  Not everyone has tools or knows how to use them.[/quote]

Oh, please.  I agree with PP that the boys are not learning as much now that the dads all think that they should just take it to a woodworker to do it for them.  I think it's ridiculous that all these 7 year olds are bringing in professional cut cars.  That's how you end up with a generation of people that don't own tools or know how to use them.

You can buy a miter saw and box at Home Depot for like $15.  Then put the car block in the box and have your kid saw back and forth, back and forth, until what was once a block becomes a wedge shape.  That's what my son has done for the past 3 years.  He does the work, not me, but I taught him how to use the miter box and roughly supervised him doing it.  Then he sands it down.  So he learns how to use a hand saw, miter box, and sand paper (e.g., start with rough grit, work with grain, move to finer grit) and the value of his own manual labor.  If you have a drill, you can use it to drill holes in the bottom to fill with lead weights to make the car go faster.  [/quote]

You clearly don' have woodworking experience.  A miter saw is not very good for these things.  There are far better saws for doing the job... if you have a drill... oh my, you don't get it do you.  (coming from someone who owns almost every tool there is).  You can barely do anything with just that.[/quote]

A miter saw will do *a* job, sheesh. If you don't have the tools or time/money for a workshop, it passes ok. Sure, it'd be amazing to have parents with a fully stocked workshop, but...[/quote]

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