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Woodwork
Diary:
Making a coffee table - Week 2
Last
week I'd decided upon a design for my table and had created a cutting
list of the various pieces of wood I would need. I just needed to
find some wood!
I managed
to contact Nick Garner and fortunately he said he could help me
out. I gave him my cutting list and within three days my wood was
all cut to size and ready to be picked up!
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Light
mahogony
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Nick
said that the wood was some sort of mahogony. It came from the roof
of a 100-year-old hospital, so it's well seasoned!
At
the next class I took my wood along ready to get stuck in!
Paul
thought it would be best to work on the top section of the table
first, I could add the legs later. The top section will be the table
top, the frame made of four blocks.
There
are various ways that you can join wood and we decided to mitre
the blocks - which means they would go together like a picture frame
- each block sawn at 45°.
My
first job was to cut the four blocks to size. I'd added a few extra
inches to each block on my cutting list, so I needed to saw the
blocks from 55cm down to 50cm.
I hadn't
really touched a saw since a CDT class at school, so I was a bit
nervous about hacking into my lovely wood. But Paul gave me some
tips such as rubbing some wax onto the saw and trying to relax!
After
a cautious start I was soon busily sawing away. Probably not the
neatest, straightest cut you've ever seen, but Paul assured me they'd
be fine!
It
more or less took me all lesson to saw just four blocks, so next
week I start the really tricky part of mitring the blocks to 45°.
Check
back to find out what I get up to in the next class in Week 3 of
the diray!
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