Week Three - Cutting Out Dowel

on the third lesson, I started to cut out dowel for the dowel joints. the dowel I used was 0.5 cm (width) by 2cm (length). to cut out the dowel I had to:

1. get out the appropriate equipment, i.e tenon saw and bench hook.
2. attach the bench hook to a vice so it doesn't move when you are trying to cut the wood.
3. mark out  2cm on your dowel. Do this as many times as you have joints, for example 3 pieces of dowel.
4. carefully with your fingers out of the way, gently saw back and fourth on the dowel so you will eventually get on piece of dowel joint.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        complete  this for as many dowel joints as you need to cut.

Cutting Dowel

Week Two - Drilling The Wood

on the second lesson we started to drill the pieces of wood we marked out the week before. to use the drill we had to makes sure that; we had an apron on, our hair was tied back, we had goggles on and only one of us was in the marked safety zone. the most important thing we had to make sure that everyone was in a pair to help with the drilling.


to use the drill you have to carry out all of the steps below:

1. with your partner get ready to use the drill, i.e wearing goggles and wearing apron.
2. take the wood that you are going to drill and place in the vice provided. tighten up so the wood won't move when drilled.
3. next align the vice with the drill so that the drill is directly above the middle of the cross.
4. once happy with the alignment, put your food on the peddle and press the green button on the side of the drill. IMPORTANT INFORMATION: if something goes wrong take your foot off the peddle as that will stop the drill.
5. drill your wood so that it is about 1.5cm deep, you may want to put tape at the measurement so you know when the hole is deep enough.

continue these steps for all of the pieces of wood you need to drill.

Drilling wood

Week One - marking out wood

Marking Out Wood:

when we were first given our wood which would make our frames,we had to make sure that it was the right lengh (125mm by 20mm and 150mm by 20mm). i used six pieces of wood to make my triangular frame, three smaller pieces of wood and 3 bigger.

to mark out the would you have to using a ruler and pencil:

1. draw a line 2cm away from the edge of the wood, once you have done this you should have a box shape at the end of the wood.
2.  draw a cross from the end of the wood to the line, so it fills up most of the space.
3. at the centre of the cross you will need to draw a dot, this is where you will need to drill.

you need to keep completeing this process on all the pieces of wood you are going to drill, and finally make a dowel joint.

Wood Being Marked