Day 8 - Sayer

 The final day of the program was a tough one almost exclusively due to the final hour, which involved me actually getting my shelf home through the pouring rain. Most of the day itself focused specifically on the finalization of my shelf, mostly in regards to sanding and adding on the last pieces. Those aforementioned last pieces were the holders and the felt pads. The holders were what the day seemed to primarily focus on. The first half of the day was spent mostly with me sanding down the top and edges of my shelf while the CNC router cut out my holders.

After lunch I came back and passed the results through the planer, ending up with two equally sized really good looking holders that I placed aside so I could finish the sanding. After the sanding was done however I added them to the top and had Mr. Grisbee teach me how to properly screw them in. After they were properly screwed in I sat back for a moment before beginning to work on the felt. Now the felt wasn't the issue, it was the fact that it was out in the open. Most of my felt pads ended up looking not fantastic, but they were good enough to have only me notice them, and I didn't have the time nor materials to make them look perfect so they stay as they are.

The last hour was rather annoying for two reasons, one, cleaning sucked, we had to reorganize the entire tinkeria after 1.5 weeks of almost nonstop woodworking action. The second reason why was the aforementioned getting a massive shelf home in the pouring rain. It wasn't fun, and the shelf is a tad worse for wear because of it, but besides that everything seems to be alright. The shelf sits rather nicely in my room at the moment, serving it's purpose.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Day 4 - Sutton

Day 8 - Catherine