Monday 21st March

Today we had a thory class where we went over what was needed for the assesment.  Rich wrote up the 7 stages of house construction and wrote detailed notes on each stage so we have some more ideas what to write in our assignment.  I have started writing up my draft for the first part, will try the timeline as well.  In the afternoon we went back to the workshop to carry on the saw horse.  I measured up my top, made the 1 in 3 cuts and chisled out the angles for the legs to be attached.  I marked up my legs with a 1 in 3 angle and cut the line i had drawn.  When i went to attach there was a little gap between my leg and the point where it was supposed to join.  I had marked out from the wrong point.  I had to do a new top, marked it out, made the cuts, chiseled it out which was a lot easier and familiar by now.  Made the straight cuts on the legs and planed them so they fit tightly into the top.  Just need to drill rest of the holes and then nail legs on, before moving on to the end cleats and the braces.

Wednesday 16th March

On wednesday we had two classes of theory going over our first assignment, and also getting used to how to read house plans.  In the afternoon we were in the workshop, finished of our handtool exercise.  Then we got started on our saw horses.  We had to measure up our main piece of timber and cut it at 900mm.  We got our other pieces of timber and cut them into four legs at 750mm each.  We had to check out which way the timber was bowed and straighten it in the planer on the front face and also on one edge.  Then we cut it at a width of 95mm, then put it through the thicknesser on the back face and also the other edge so we had them at  20mm thick.  I have started to mark up on my top piece where I will cut out the housing for the saw stool legs.

Computer Lab

This morning we have been in the computer lab.  We signed up a new gmail account, and set up our blogger accounts as well.