Term 3, week 1

In woodwork this term, we are making coat hangers. The finished product should look something like this:

Woodwork week 3

This week, i used my time to start on the wooden cylinder that the paper towels will go on. To do this, i gathered two rectangular bits of wood and glued and clamped them together so that they formed a square. I will then use this on the wood lave and make it circular. I also finished my slots for in the vertical pieces.

Woodwork week 2

This week, i have used a coping saw and a oscillating sander to put smooth curves into the two vertical pieces of wood I have also started to put the grooves into the so that other wood can fit in it (this will occur later).
The picture below shows what i have done so far.

woodwork week 1

In woodwork, we finalised the design of our paper towel holders, received the wood and have now started to work on it by cutting all our wood into the right lengths.

Woodwork.

In woodwork, we have drawn up designs and portfolios for a paper towel holder. In the mean time, we have been working on google sketch up and we drew a hot air ballon, this is mine:

This was the end result:

Making the X's and O's box

WEEK 4

In week 4, we cut out 9 cubes. To do this, we got wood that was 40mm high and 40mm wide and cut it into 40 mm lengths. this created a cube. Repeat the cut until you have 9 blocks.

The cubes looked like this:

We then we branded an 'X' into one side and an 'O' in the other using a bench drill. We heated up the metal parts of the machine to extreme temperatures and then burnt the X and O into the blocks. This last step was the last step (unless you want to put a finish on it). 

The end result was this: 

WEEK 3

In week 3 of the X's and O's box, we made a base for the box. For this, you only need a piece of ply wood that is 183mm by 183mm. It will look like this:

Next, you should join the box to the pieces of wood by lining up the bottom with the joined pieces. Once you know it is the right size, you can glue the bottom of the wood pieces and then apply the bottom to the wood pieces. Next you nail small nails that line up with the wood pieces so that it reinforces the wood.

It should then look like this:

WEEK 2

In week 2 of making our X's and O's box, we cut another four identical pieces of wood (171 millimetres long and 12 millimetres thick). You then make sure each piece fits in between each slot (try one, if it doesn't fit, try it in another) when you find a place that two can go horizontal and two vertical (it doesn't matter if the inserts are too big because you can sand it on a disk sander. Once you find a spot it fits, mark with different numbers on each four bits of wood and also mark matching numbers with the slot that it fits in but make sure you only mark it and one end because it might fit one way but not the other and you can then know if it is the right way or upside-down. Once you know this, you should put the two vertical ones half way in and the horizontal once half way it (because they don't inter lock together yet) and then mark (the width of the crossing wood) the bits where it is not allowing them join together (where the wood crosses each other). Next you should mark out all the way around the wood (so that it is all inline of where the cross section is). Then, with a marking gauge, mark out half  in between the markings that you just made. The you cant cut and chisel that little section out. Make sure you do the vertical ones half way from the top and the horizontal ones half way from the bottom so that two are the opposite of the other.

Two should look like this...

But the other two the same but upside down.

When you put those wood pieces (shown above), you can now interlock them and put them in the previously made 'walls'.

You do this step by doing the following:

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You can then undo the three steps you just completed and then glue them (once again, don't worry about nails because the base will hold it together better.

WEEK 1

This week, we received a long piece of wood. With this piece of wood, we are to make 4 identical bits that are 183 millimetres across and 12 millimetres thick. We cut out the wood so that we could later make joints to make an outside wall for a X's and O's box. We also cut pieces out of these four identical ones to make slots that other pieces of wood will later slide into. These slots where cut out of the wood by measuring and marking with a pencil 12 mm from the left and right and then 45mm from the left and right (the 45mm marks where measured from the previous 12mm markings) and then 12 mm from the left and right (these where measured from the previous 45mm markings and you will need to mark this out all the way around the wood) and then there should be 45mm in between the two 12mm marks. You will need the use a marking gauge to mark out half of the width of wood as this is how much you will chisel out. You only need to make the markings on the inner two 12mm lines. Next you can saw cuts on the markings you made (the four lines of the inner two 12 mm sections) all the way down to your marking gauge line. Then you need to chisel the 12mm section away by lining up your chisel with the marking gauge line and then you can chisel away this section.

this is what the four pieces of wood looked like (remember that 4 are identical):

After this step, we joined the four pieces with a groove joint (all measurements on the picture above). When we joined them, they formed walls for the X's and O's box and looked like this:

After you put them together like this (with the 12 mm cuts facing inwards) you can glue it together. You don't need to worry about nailing because you will re-inforce it with a bas later.

Tic tac toe

in woodwork we are making a tic tac toe box. The end result we are looking for is this: