fri 7 mar

first day in the workshop not at all what expected. it felt like high school again. we were shown, then given a task. we used a variety of tools, the majority hand. some of these included chisels of different sizes, mallat, scribe, vices and the always needed pencil and square. the medium was 60x30mil pine wood. the task was housing and halving joints.

Housing joints are for shortest length timber joins which include tongued house through house and stopped house. stopped house i felt where the strongest join and also the most difficult to perform. the easier of the joins was through house. at first it took me a while to get used to the setting and the change in scale but as the day progressed my speed increased and so did my accuracy.

halving joints are for longer lengths of timber joins. i didnt quite finish those. but the time is still there. as no one in the group managed to finish these. these joins included tee halving, corner halving and dovetail halving. i will include pictures of these items as i receive them. they shouldnt take long to complete.