Day Two: Planning (Aiden)

 Day Two: Planning

    We spent today planning our projects and what we would do for the rest of the A-term. Because of the flooding, today was a late day and we started at 10:00am, but we got to work as soon as we came in the door. I had already planned a bit of what I wanted my project to look like the previous night, which was a bedside table custom designed for my needs, but I still had far to go in terms of planning what I wanted to purchase and how I was going to put the table together. We spent the rest of the day until about 2:00pm planning for our projects, and eventually I decided that me and Isaak would join our budgets to purchase two 8-foot walnut boards and another thinner 4-foot walnut board, which would be more then plenty for the both of us. 

 

3-D model of my bedside table design for planning

    While we were planning our purchase lists, we actually had to learn quite a bit about different types of wood and the way it's listed and priced on a catalogue. Personally, while I knew that plywood could have different specifications for the quality of the center and outsides, I never knew that solid wood also specified the quality of each side in terms of how much it was sanded and the quality of the wood. In the end, really the main challenge was just to fit the wood price under our budget of $150, which proved to be much more of a challenge then expected.

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