Essay Woodshop The projects I did this quarter were: the beach chair from last quarter, the wind spiral, the cube in cube, the shop bot and the finger joint box. I made these projects using either the band saw, the radial arm saw, drill press, and I didn’t really use any other machine.
On one particular project, the cube in cube, I liked to use the drill press machine because of how it would go in the wood with ease. My cube didn’t come out as good because the kid before me the big hairy guy kept moving the machine when he wasn’t supposed to. After I drilled all six sides of the cube all I had to do was get a coping saw blade and saw the corners till the inner cube came loose. After it did, it was hard to sand the cube and its corners to give it that smooth finish you wanted in return for a B letter grade. I spent almost 3 days sanding it to what it looked like perfection in my eyes. The shop bot name project was the easiest project I did this quarter because all I had to do was turn on the computer open a program, throw a piece of plywood (because there was no wood) type up some numbers move the up and down buttons, but when we were done the last name didn’t come out like how we wanted it to come out. You said the blade wasn’t sharp enough or you had to change the tip of something. The next day we did the same process but not as deep as how we previously tried it. It didn’t come out as good as other peoples either. The finger joint box
