Our self-appointed family historian found this old photo.
Edmund Davison Soper, my grandfather whom I was named after
I still have that carving bench, mallet, gouge and even the sweep chart on the wall
Photo taken late 1940's in Evanston, Ill.
Couldn't do it. Can't leave the shop without having something I've worked with on my clothes. Wood stain, varnish. motor oil, grease - you name it.
I'll bet the only power he had in that workshop was that overhead light, too!
Actually my memory of him was he was always dressed in a suit. If he were around today, I suspect he would still be dressed that way. He was a university president.
My first thought was of Oliver Douglas (Green Acres) and imagined he must have had a woodworking suit to go with the plowing suit, planting suit etc., but that was just how people dressed at one time. Cool picture sir! Obviously that woodworking gene got passed along.