Day 4: Trial and error (Nate Savarese)

Today was one of my busiest days yet. The day started when I wanted to put together my pieces without glue to get an idea of what my finished build would look like. I  am really glad I did this because I learned two very important things. The first one, is that some of my boards were crooked. I fixed this by using the table saw to saw off less than 1/4 of an inch from the sides so I could keep the size of the wood and have the shape that I wanted. The second problem, was that I made my sides too big. I forgot to count for the space that the back and front take up, so they were jutting out of the front of the box. I then cut these down to what I wanted to fix that problem. Then, I looked for inspiration for a design for my front panel to make my box look better, and so a little bit of light would be let into the box. My first idea was to cut hexagons into the wood using a laser cutter. But when we tried a test piece of wood. We learned that instead of cutting a clean hexagon. The laser could not even cut through all the wood and when it did it left a huge burning and charcoal mess. I finally settled on drilling holes into the wood. But this also didn't work because the drill that was strong enough for the job couldn't fit the bit into it. Mr. Grisbee ran to the hardware store to get a new drill bit, and when he came back I could finally start drilling the holes. This proved to be harder than I thought though because on the first hole that I drilled, I over heated the drill battery. But eventually I was able to get the hang of it and finished 3 out of the 9 holes that I needed to drill.