This past week I have done a lot of work. Specifically I loved using the hand planers because I have never used one before. If you didn’t know, hand planers are meant to shave wood in order to make it smooth. I looks like this:

As you can see, when the wood is shaved, it leaves left over thin wood curls. At the end of class, we spent about 5 minutes trying to clean all of the curls up because there were so many!

In addition to working with the hand planers, I designed my box. I had to be very specific so that Ms. Giroux could know what size pieces of wood I need. This is what my design looked like:

The dimensions on my box show that may box will be a regular rectangle. Overall, I am very excited to start building my box!