Advanced Woodworking A-Term 2022

A little Behind      I was excited to be back for day four. I was ready to start cutting and gluing my project together. I didn’t realize it when we were buying would, but my plan was designed to use 1-inch thick wood, and I didn’t realize that we had bought 3/4 inch wood at the store. When I realized, I was not mad but just disappointed that I couldn’t start my day off by cutting and gluing. I didn’t realize before I started designing again that changing wood to 3/4 of an inch instead of 1 inch is actually much more complicated than it sounds. When redesigning, I discovered other significant flaws in my design that would not affect the structure but the practicality of the design. I realized my project, a coaster holder with a tiny drawer that clamps onto the side of my couch, was way too big. It was going to be over 10 inches long and 12 inches tall. It just never came to mind that that might be too chunky and big to be on the arm of my couch. So I started designing from the beginnin

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