Day 5: #Productive (Harper)

 #Productive

Today I feel like I have made a lot of progress! I can’t believe it’s already Friday; this week has gone by so fast. Today I finished cutting all of my wood from the big board that we got on Wednesday. The process of cutting the big pieces was very interesting. You can use many attachments on the table saw, and I feel like I used every single one. I found the table saw to be very difficult even though I’ve done it before in the design technology course. I messed up a lot more than I would have liked to because I wasn’t measuring right, or I wasn’t at the right angle when I was cutting, which was very difficult. After I finished cutting, I learned how to make a miter joint, a particular type of joint that you can cut to make two pieces of wood intersect much nicer. The miter joint works by having two different pieces of wood, both pieces of wood have a 45° cut on the ends. The boards are then merged together to form a perfect 90° angle which looks very slim and professional. Miter joints seem very simple when talking about them but end up being much more complicated when cutting them. You first have to start off with leveling the table saw using a unique piece of equipment with a 90° angle to make sure your blade is at a 90° angle to set up the cuts correctly. After that, you use a magnetic angle monitor that sticks to the blade while you adjust the angle. You have to zero it at precisely 90°, and then you can start angling the blade. Once you’re done turning the blade, it should be at a 45° angle, and the machine will tell you the exact angle down to the hundredth of a point; that is where it gets tricky. Angling the blade gets exceptionally challenging when you are trying to get precisely 45° because if it’s not 45°, the joint won’t fit together, and it will ruin your whole piece. When you are in the range of between  46° and 44° getting the exact 45.00 takes a while because moving the joint blade uses a big wheel to adjust it, and it is hard to get down to the point. After I finished cutting my miter joint, it looked excellent and fit perfectly. I then cut the base for the driver and the piece of wood for the back of the drawer. We were about to glue my project together but clamping it to stay in place while the glue dries were going to be an issue due to the complex joints and shapes. So we decided that we needed a better plan and should resume this next week on Monday. I’m incredibly proud of myself for all my progress, and I can’t wait until Monday.

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