Day Four: It's all coming together (Aiden)

Day Four: It's all coming together

    Today was our first full day to work with our wood and really get some good progress on our designs. When I came in the door, I already had my wood ready to cut and marked out, so I got straight to cutting the wood into the various pieces I would need. Since the bedside table was designed to be one and a half feet in width but we purchased half-foot wide boards, I had to make three separate but nearly identical pieces for each of the five main parts of my build. As you can probably expect, that turned to be a lot of wood to cut and refine, and it ended up taking me most of the day to complete, up until about two in the afternoon. Despite taking a while, it was oddly satisfying to just be able to set the table-saw's fence to one position or the plainer to one height and cut six two-foot-long boards all at once.

    Once the wood was all cut and ready, I started the process of gluing all the wood together to make the one and a half-foot wide pieces I needed. I glued together each grouping of boards and then used two clamps to hold each grouping together so they could begin the long process of drying overnight. This process also took me a while, because even after all the time I had spent on my original cutting of the boards, I had to make a few extra cuts so the wood would all line up when it was fully put together. In the end, I used up all the clamps in the building and got sawdust pretty much everywhere, but it was all worth it because my wood was busy drying for the next day.

My wood resting on it's various clamps while drying after being glued.

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