Sunday, 4 March 2007

Lesson 1
In this lesson i spent all of it drawing the template on to the mdf. i found this quite confusing as you had to enlarge the scale factor by two. The hardest part was probably drawing the curve on the side of the body. Next lesson i aim to finish drawing it up and start cutting it out.

Lesson 2
This lesson i finished off drawing extremely quickly and got onto cutting it out. I first cut out the seat and backrest. These were extremely easy as they were very similar and were of basic design. I then sanded them off until they had the same curves and were the same width. Next lesson i aim to begin cutting out one of the sides

Lesson 3
This lesson i cut out my one side. I did most of this on the electric saw and then sanded down the outer curve on the electric sander. this meant i had a pretty easy lesson. It got harder when i had to do the inner curve because i couldn't use the electric sander and i had to do it myself. LAZY? The good thing was that as long as i was happy with it, that would do as for the second side i simply drew round it so they would both be the same. Next lesson i aim to begin cutting out the second side.

Lesson 4
For the second side i did the same thing as for the first. It took me most of the lesson but i just couldn't get the sides to be the same size so i spent the rest of the lesson trying to do so. Next lesson i aim to finish off the shaping so that both are the same size and to start cutting the slide gaps.

Lesson 5
This lesson i spent about half an hour ensuring that both sides were the same. It was pretty hard but i got it in the end. i then set to work doing the slide gaps but only got three done before the end. This would be the sticky time at which i broke my first blade. A SAD TIME FOR ALL INVOLVED. Next lesson i aim to finish.

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