A couple weeks ago in technology I learned about wood veneer. Wood veneer is a very thin slice of natural wood. Veneer is sometimes used as a small, individual sheet, but more often veneer are manufactured into larger sheets. I thought it was cool to see all the steps that veneer manufacturing factories do to make large sheets.

For creating my box there was three steps. Measuring and cutting the wood, gluing the sides, and gluing the bottom. The easiest part was measuring and cutting the wood because it was pretty straightforward and I could clearly see what and where I was cutting. However, the gluing steps is the part that I struggled with. When I was gluing the sides together they were falling apart and didn’t really stick together. I decided to put more glue on the wood and hold the wooden pieces together for longer. The next step I did was gluing the bottom, which was a little easier than gluing the sides because the sides were already glued. After, I let the pieces of wood dry. I decided to not paint my box because I liked how it would look natural without any paint. Overall, this project was easy in some parts and challenging in the others but I enjoyed creating a box that I can now use.