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Yesterday! :)
Aug. 12th, 2010 10:36 amSo yesterday was totally awesome right up until last night where i got frustrated with not being able to find barcodes on a few products.
Yesterday's woodwork class was the best yet; I felt so confident and at ease with all the equipment I was using. -- Dad had asked me a few weeks ago if I had told them it must be in the gene-pool since he'd built our house and will fix anything else that needs fixing etc. I'd laughed at him, but there may be an ounce of truth to it. -- Anyway, I'm so impressed that I'm going to bring him into have a look at the setup of the workshop; I think he'll be very impressed, and maybe even, God forbid, set up something like it in his own workshop so i can like help him sometimes. I didn't think I'd be so serious about that, but I am; I'm loving it! :)
First up, we had a review of the thicknesser; I had no trouble remembering how it all worked though. -- Then Brett cut up all our timber for the chopping board at different thicknesses and lengths. We then had to measure the thinnest bit of wood from our pile and put all of them through the thicknesser both sides to dress it. -- It takes a good while to do both sides of each bit of timber. I was lucky as Richard (another class mate) got all mine from the back and handed them back to me, so it saved a bit of time.
Then, I used the drop-saw to cut the wood at all the same lengths. after remeasuring to make sure I'd set it up correctly for my particular cuts, Brett made sure I had good control of the saw and was perfectly safe using it, then he went to help others while I cut the rest on my own. -- i never thought I'd be into this!
As Richard can only use one arm due to recent surgery, he had to use a hand-saw and as I hadn't seen one before, I had a go chopping one of his bits of wood; It was awesome, but very slow; I'd rather the "big scarey drop-saw" thanks. :)
After that, brett showed us how to use the wide Belt Sander as next week, we'll be putting our wood through that, gluing them together and being introduced to a few more machines to finish it all off - so looking forward to that.
After this, I hit record on my Olympus DS30 and it recorded my walking back to reception, Jim coming and giving me my item, a bit in the cab, (the weather was severe yesterday and i feared Blackburn station would be flooded as usual on these days, so I shared a cab home with Ed. -- Then I started a new recording where i opened the boxes and gave my first impressions.
I did have trouble later on though; couldn't find the barcodes on certain items, but Jim offered to help me figure it out more when I take some items in Tuesday as well as good old![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
khoath.
Til Next time, RdFreak
There's some crackling on this file which is the microphone; i don't edit these things. (goes for about 30 to 40 minutes)
Yesterday's woodwork class was the best yet; I felt so confident and at ease with all the equipment I was using. -- Dad had asked me a few weeks ago if I had told them it must be in the gene-pool since he'd built our house and will fix anything else that needs fixing etc. I'd laughed at him, but there may be an ounce of truth to it. -- Anyway, I'm so impressed that I'm going to bring him into have a look at the setup of the workshop; I think he'll be very impressed, and maybe even, God forbid, set up something like it in his own workshop so i can like help him sometimes. I didn't think I'd be so serious about that, but I am; I'm loving it! :)
First up, we had a review of the thicknesser; I had no trouble remembering how it all worked though. -- Then Brett cut up all our timber for the chopping board at different thicknesses and lengths. We then had to measure the thinnest bit of wood from our pile and put all of them through the thicknesser both sides to dress it. -- It takes a good while to do both sides of each bit of timber. I was lucky as Richard (another class mate) got all mine from the back and handed them back to me, so it saved a bit of time.
Then, I used the drop-saw to cut the wood at all the same lengths. after remeasuring to make sure I'd set it up correctly for my particular cuts, Brett made sure I had good control of the saw and was perfectly safe using it, then he went to help others while I cut the rest on my own. -- i never thought I'd be into this!
As Richard can only use one arm due to recent surgery, he had to use a hand-saw and as I hadn't seen one before, I had a go chopping one of his bits of wood; It was awesome, but very slow; I'd rather the "big scarey drop-saw" thanks. :)
After that, brett showed us how to use the wide Belt Sander as next week, we'll be putting our wood through that, gluing them together and being introduced to a few more machines to finish it all off - so looking forward to that.
After this, I hit record on my Olympus DS30 and it recorded my walking back to reception, Jim coming and giving me my item, a bit in the cab, (the weather was severe yesterday and i feared Blackburn station would be flooded as usual on these days, so I shared a cab home with Ed. -- Then I started a new recording where i opened the boxes and gave my first impressions.
I did have trouble later on though; couldn't find the barcodes on certain items, but Jim offered to help me figure it out more when I take some items in Tuesday as well as good old
khoath.Til Next time, RdFreak
There's some crackling on this file which is the microphone; i don't edit these things. (goes for about 30 to 40 minutes)
