Month: February 2020

This week while cutting wood, we realized that math was big part of woodworking. When we first cut the top and bottom, we did it at a regular size that we had prescribed on the order form. But when it came to the four sides, things got a bit tricky. This is because the wood is a half inch thick. So when cutting the front and back we had to decrease the height by one inch, to make up for the two half-inches. On the two sides we dec rebased the height and width by an inch each. This made up for the half-inches added on by the top, bottom, front, and sides.

This week we cut all of our box pieces. We started with a big plank of wood that was the wood that of our box. We cut that up with saws into our top and bottom pieces. Next we did a mathematical equation to find the sizes of our front, back, and side pieces.

When we sawed, we made sure to do it safely with safety glasses. We also put the wood in the clamp very tight so that it wouldn’t fall out.

The other day we experimented with tinkercad for the first time. The assignment was to make name tags or name plates. We started by converting the dashboard to inches. We added a ruler and then clicked on “add text.” Next I typed out my name. We had to change the size of the text so it wouldn’t take to long to print. We had to do 2 by 1 by 1/4. After that we uploaded it to a survey for Ms. Giroux. She told us to pick a color for the design. I picked purple. Now, I cant wait to see how it looks.

In class yesterday we experimented with many tools and pieces of wood. We used screws, nails, hooks, awls, screwdrivers, and wood. We used the screwdrivers to put the awls and nails into the wood. I got 5 nails through my wood, and ended up splitting my piece of wood in half. It was very hard to do because we had to figure out how to drive the nail into the wood. We used vices to hold the old in place. In the end, my question is, what if we had used hammers? Would it have made it much easier?