Term 3 Week 4

This week was all-out practical. On Monday I finished drawing out the board. Then Sam, Kenji and I went into the woodwork room to use the band-saw. Sam went first, getting Terry to cut out his board for no apparent reason. Kenji went second and I held his board still while he cut it out. Then it was my turn. First I cut out the rough shape of the board (not including the curved front). I the trimmed down the side, back and back corners. As I wasn't confident enough to cut out the frontal curves I asked Kenji (who had previous experience with the band-saw) to do it for me. I turned off the band-saw and admired my newly-cut board. I felt as if I had made tonnes of progress in the double period - more than i've ever done before. On Wednesday I was sanding down the board, to makes the straights straight and the curves curved. I managed to sand downn the whole left-hand side of the board to the drawn line (as there was excess from the cutting). On Thursday I was doing the same thing (but this time working on the right-hand side). I am hoping to finish sanding (still have to round edges) this week.