Day 1-3 Nathaniel

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 Sorry this post took so long to get out, but my week has been quite hectec. On day one, I was unable to attend in person due to it being the last of my quarantine, but I still woke up bright and early ready to make a project. Previously I had thought about what type of project I was aiming for, namely a smaller and more intricate utility-based project, I did not want to make something that would just be there but something I could use and take with me to college, in my brainstorming, I thought through many ideas including a clip-on desk cupholder, a card box/organizer, and briefly, a trebuchet. In the end, I finally settled on building a dice tower. This would be a tower structure with interior slats that would fully randomize the dice rolling them. I would also implement a storage system to keep dice in the tower for role-playing games for quick and easy use. After drawing a very not-to-scale model of what I wanted and discussing with Mr. Grisbee I had to duck out for my vaccine appointment and was unable to return by the end of the day. 

On day two, I started in person at first while I was weakened severely from the vaccine, I was mostly fine and got to work making a cut list to have a more precise order. Unfortunately, as the day progressed my symptoms got worse and I became completely exhausted to a point where I had to leave early. After giving my parts list to Mr. Grisbee, I headed home sleeping almost continuously for the next 17 hours. 

Day three, I was back. Because I had to leave early The day before, I was unable to join everyone in buying wood so today I started by looking at the wood I requested from Mr. Grissbe and visualizing what my project would look like and if the dimensions I had planed were still what I wanted. I continued by double-checking my cut list from yesterday to make sure I still measured right in my diminished state (I didn’t) and fixed what needed to be fixed. Then it was time for my first cut. The first thing I did was square my base, this is basically making sure that not only are both sides flat but they are flush with each other and perpendicular to the sides. This process required 2 steps, the jointer, and the planer. The jointer flattens one face and then the side next to it creating the 90-degree angle, then the planer makes them uniform effectively flattening the other face squaring the piece. From there, I started working on the designs I wanted to engrave on the sides of the walls and on the base using adobe illustrator. This took more work than it probably should of as it has been a while since I have used it and I am still a little rusty. By the end of the day, I had mostly finished the design for the base and started the walls. I was also ready to start cutting and planned to start that first thing the next day.

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