Bob,
You're correct - I don't have much of a 'history' on this site. I started down the rebuilding (and eventually scraping) rabbit hole through my involvement in Factory Two, a community makerspace in Flint. For those not familiar, a makerspace is simply a community workshop. I was working to get the wood shop setup and along the way discovered the fantastic community over at Old Wood Working & Metalworking Machinery forum (owwm.org) as well as it's sister site, Keith Rucker's VintageMachinery.org. That, in turn, led me to PM.
Once the woodshop area was setup, we added a Bridgeport Series 2 and a couple metal lathes (SB 10k and an Emco-Maier Maximat v13). That was the point that I realized that the machinery was the easy part - we still needed the tooling, metrology/measuring equipment, and basic knowledge about setup/calibration/maintenance of the machinery. So I created an account on this site and also had the good fortune of meeting Daryl (OtherBrother on here) through a local CL purchase. After that initial purchase I became friends with Daryl - he is an incredibly talented, knowledgeable and friendly person who has absolutely no airs about him. Spending time with him in his shop is always a treat, and typically a learning experience.
Daryl encouraged me to more formally pursue learning the art of scraping, so I signed up for and attended Richard's March 2020 class. After attending that class I joined a scraping FB group. Someone there recently asked about the possibility for a King scraping class in Michigan this year, so I reached out to Richard and offered hosting at our space.
Richard can provide you details on cost. When I attended last year I didn't own a power scraper - Richard supplied power scrapers for students that didn't have one to use. You should have a handscraper for the class (either shop-made or commercial).
He encourages students to bring their own projects, but if there is anyone that doesn't have something I can provide angle plates and the like to practice on.
Feel free to send me a DM here or email mike at factorytwo.org.
Regards,
Mike