First Project

Hello,

Just a quick note. I have finished my first project at school. It is a simple pine side table made from construction grade 2/4's. The pictures are not that great, but I will try and take some better ones next week.





We are currently working on two different projects at the same time. One is an instrument case - a wooden briefcase basically. It is very interesting because all the the corners are being constructed with different types of joinery. The second project is a drawer for a little shaker side table we will build later. It is going to have dovetail joinery. The drawer has been as exhaustive project because it has to be all done by hand. This means we sawed the wood up by hand and we also have to plane down each piece to be flat and square by hand with block planes. This is a difficult process which requires a real careful hand and constant measurements. The drawer has definitely provided me with a new respect for people who built houses, and boats and furniture before there were power tools. Well I will post more pictures when I take them.

Cheers