May 13 - 17

It's Art Show Week!

You should have registered your piece for the Art Show on Monday or Tuesday. Please do so with my guest teacher Mr. Winn on Wednesday, if you have not already done so.

I'll see you on Thursday, class will be mostly focused on setting up the show.

T-shirt orders have been submitted to the student run business -- I'm excited to get mine!

May7 -10

Woodworkers have been working on their final project plans and execution.

Our student run print business would like to make you a t-shirt!

Here is the design (rough draft, test will be "ON TIME - ON BUDGET - ACCORDING TO PLAN- SAFELY - TOGETHER:

Shirts will be $8.00 cash for each order is due Tuesday, 14 May!

Classes were given notes, instruction, and practice sharpening this week.

7th Period Plan, 3 May

You will have a substitute at the beginning of class: Mr. Mateo

I should return towards the end of the class. I look forward to talking about the makers and the projects you study while I am gone.

Use the handout, to take notes on what you watch including things you see the "experts" do, that you shouldn't do in our shop; project ideas; "tips and tricks" for making that might be useful to you; questions you'd like me to answer when I return.

Jimmy DiResta, is a very successful and popular Maker on YouTube. However, there are some videos he has published where his use of tools seems so unsafe to me, that I won't show them to you. In this first video, DiResta makes a chess board (anyone play chess or checkers?). While he does at least two things in a way that are NOT ok in this class (please see if you can identify the unsafe techniques).

Watch this video of DiResta making a chess board first.

One of our first lessons of the year was reading some Nick Offerman. I like the idea of returning to Offerman, now, at the end of the year. We will do that in two short videos. The first is a "Tour of Nick Offerman's Shop" hosted by Asa Christiana, who was an editor at Fine Woodworking Magazine seven years ago (and who now, lives, teaches, and writes about woodworking here in Portland). 

Watch the Fine Woodworking Tour of Offerman's workshop circa 2009.

Offerman became even more successful as a comic and writer after 2012. As you may remember from the excerpts from the book we read, his focus in the shop is now, significantly, about giving a place for young workers to grow and to work.

In the second video tour of Offerman's works shop, look particularly for how Offerman's ideas about woodworking have changed (stayed the same), and for tips for newer woodworkers (like yourselves).

Watch the This Old House Tour of Offerman's workshop circa 2017.

Friday, 3 May -- Zartler on Field Trip

I will not be available during flex time today, I'm taking students to the Pacific Northwest Carpenters Institute.

Framing a wall

Intermediate will be practicing the basics of framing as they build a Toy-Box / Dance Stage for the Dance Collective.

Here is an introduction to the theory of framing. There is a great 2 page ,pdf available for download at the bottom of the page.

This video helps make marking a plate clear.