Chair Practical Diary 12th March

This was our last lesson for finishing cutting our chairs; next lesson we will be putting on a finish. I immediately finished cutting the piece that had broken in the previous lesson. I made all the slots slightly wider because it broke because it was such a thigh fit before, also when the finish is applied it would be an even tighter fit and I already had to hit it with something to put it together or take it apart. After that I used the final minutes to round off all the edges so now my chair is complete.

Chair Practical Diary 9th March

I had finished my chair last lesson but it was a bit wobbly. I started off by sanding down the legs to stop that, when I was putting it back together after a bit broke! I started to make a new piece, that didn't take too long but than that broke too when I was seeing if the slots were big enough! I made a 3rd piece but didn't have time to cut the slots before the lesson ended. In the end I was further behind than at the start of the lesson, I did make the chair less wobbly so the lesson wasn't a complete failure.

Chair Practical Diary 5th March

At the start we were told tht we only had 3 lessons left to finish the project and had to make a mental note of what we still had left to do. I had cut out all my pieces and just had to cut out 9 slots, 3 per lesson I thought. I started off and finished the side piece I had already done one slot on and then the other side piece without anything going wrong. When I started on the first slot on the seat piece I immediately broke a saw blade on the scroll saw (there must be something wrong with the packet) and decided to use a coping saw instead. I did the 4 remaining slots and constructed my chair by the end of the lesson. It is just a bit wobbly. In the final 2 lessons I will shorten one of the legs to stop it wobbling and finish off all the edges.

Chair Practical Diary 2nd March

Today I finished off the side pieces straight away by just sanding down the edges. I then cut out the other 3 pieces on the scroll saw. Twothem were just rectangles so they were easy, the other one had Mickey Mouse style ears on so that was harder. I also cut out the slots for the side pieces to fit into on that and filed down the inside of it so it was a tight fit. I started doing more slots but only got chance to do one on one of the side pieces, that was a tight fit too. I'm proud that I didn't break any saw blades that lesson but people next to me did. Next lesson I will keep cutting out the slots and hopefully they will all be tight fits.

Chair Practical Diary 16th Feb

At first I just drew the design I had already worked out onto the MDF I was using, I had to draw it twice the size of the ones I had done before. I then had to cut out all the pieces, to make it easier I got the 600 x 600 piece cut into smaller pieces on the band saw. I started by cutting out the side pieces on the scroll saw. I accidentaly broke 2 blades on that! when i had finished wrecking the scroll saw I made sure the pieces I had cut out were the same. To do that I cut off any extra bits with a coping saw (I broke another blade it that too) and used a file to smooth off the edges. next lesson i will mainly try not to break so many saw blades