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.