Basic Shop Skills

One thing that's very difficult for suburban homeschooled students is to get basic shop skills. I wonder how one would go about finding a resource?

Here are a few links but it's definitely only the tip...
Qualification card for basic shop skills (great overview of what could be required):
http://www.eng.mu.edu/~dlc/Qualification%20Card%20for%20Basic%20Shop.pdf

This website has quite a bit of info (of course, nothing hands on!):
http://www.practicalstudent.com/index.html

And here's a review of a woodworking book:
http://eclectichomeschool.org/reviews/reviewsub.asp?subcatid=197

Here’s a wood working book with plans to follow through:
Boy Joiner and Model Maker, The
Publisher: Hope Chest Legacy
Author: E.A. Davidson
List Price: $18.00
Ages: 15-18 Years
Reviewed By: Deborah Deggs Cariker

Originally published in 1874, E.A. Davidson's "how-to" book for boys The Boy Joiner and Model Maker is an excellent choice for the boys in your life, the ones who are always putting things together (or taking them apart), and the ones who are drawing out creations to build from their imaginations. Hope Chest Legacy reprinted the treasure as a 246-page hardcover book with nearly 200 illustrations, directing your son to work with his hands, as instructed in I Thessalonians 4:11-12: "And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing."

Davidson begins the 32 chapters with one on tools and how to use them. He follows with instructions on how to make several, increasingly harder, projects including bookshelves, box, dog kennel, tool chest, and writing desk. His chapter on model making is followed by directions on making intricate creations like a model railway and even a working model mill. Used as a school text for woodshop or as a guide for extra-curricular activities, this will be an exciting and challenging book for junior high and high school boys.