Exploring Wood

Recently in tech we started to play around with wood. I began to notice how wood works. If you break the piece of wood vertically it leaves a smooth cut, but if you break the wood horizontally it is very messy and you can easily get a splinter. Eventually we got to cut the wood with a small knife like saw. If you cut the wood vertically or horizontally it cut nice and smooth while if you cut the wood diagonally it was harder to cut and it took longer. Overall having never explored wood the way I did in class I think it was a good start to making things with wood.