Tuesday, 19 November, Guest Teacher Mr. Winn

Folk,

Introduction to Woodworking (Periods 6 & 7)

Today your main job is to ensure that you have all of the required notes in your note book. I will collect these at the end of the period on Thursday, and grade them during confernces.

Mr. Winn will give you a checklist with instructions on it (It is also posted in the last blog entry.)

IF you finish that assignment you may use a chrome book to:

study Maucks.com/safety (Drill Press; Miter Saw; Bandsaw; Planner; Machine Sanders -- even Table saw

read an issue of Building Futures magazine (in a box under the white board) and learn about some career possibilitiees

learn about woodworking methods from one of the most popular teachers ever Roy Underhill

I will collect your notebooks on Thursday.

Intermediate & Advanced Period 8:

As we discussed last class:

1) At the end of class be sure there is a super clear and easy path from the roll up door to the location for the new drum sander. 

2) Today you will be engaged in a kind of scavenger hunt; one or two of you will be randomly asked to report on your findings during each class over the next couple of weeks.

The resources I suggest you use are the youtube channels for the following makers. I want you to stay with the folk suggested because they (usually / almost always do things safely) and I think they do good work.

You may choose whomever from this list most appeals to you; I suggest that you view the thumbnails, and peruse several channels before settling on a video or two to do an in-depth analysis of. In fact, it's super fine to skip around through a bunch of videos first to find ones that really interest you.

Goals of the Video Viewing:

1) Find project ideas that you think are interesting and possible for you or other students this year.

2) To learn new techniques and approaches to making.

3) To spot hazardous or unsafe practices in "published" woodworking videos.

4) To practice critical viewing by identifying paid product placement and / or endorsements.

Be prepared to talk about a video in each of the four catagories described above. Be sure to be able to identify and readily share the video link with the class (One great way to do this would be to email me a link, and your notes on the above. I believe appropriate notes might be a half a page or so, and the best notes might include time stamp references, etc.

Anne of All Trades: Anne used to teach woodworking in Seattle. She is a very good teacher and woodworker. Some of her videos won't apply to what we do (e.g. grooming Alpaca.)

Pask Makes: An interesting Australian. He makes cool things with limited tools. Machine oriented. A lot of fun.

Mathias Wandell: He invented the Pantarouter. Machine oriented. Possibly a genius. Workmanship varies. Look back in his channel, he has not be doing a lot of woodworking lately.

Frank Howarth: Super smart; architect turned maker (you may have sat on things he's made here in Portland). A lot of what he does doesn't apply to our class; great film making.

Paul Sellars: Annoying but great instruction in hand tools. He will teach you how to do "it" with just a few hand tools. Great quality of information. 

April Wilkerson: Best friends with Anne of All Trades. Approachable projects; Good techniques. Machine oriented.

Marc Spagnolo aka "The Wood Whisperer": machine oriented, but uses hand tools well. Very good at marketing himself. Solid techniques.

Marius Hornberger: Kind of a German Mathias Wandell (who is Canadian). Marius, like Mathias has literally built many of his machines. 

Monday / Tuesday Nover 18/19

I have to be out of school on Tuesday the 19th.

On Thursday and Friday of this week I will collect your Woodworking Notebooks and do a notebook check during conferences. Pasted below is the form and instructions students received for this assignment. 

Students who are caught up on this, and do not want to go over machine operations with Mr. Zartler are invited to learn from a great teacher Roy Underhill!

Name__________________________________________ Per. ____

Intro to Woods Notebook Check:

All of the following are references to notes that SHOULD be in your woodworking notebook. Next week there will be a notebook check to ensure you have all these notes. ALL of these can be found reposted on the blog. Sequentially number the pages in your notebook, then put the page number where the notes are (or will be if you have make up to do) on the line in front of each item. You will turn this index in with your notebook.

p. ________ 

Class guidelines: We work _____; _____; _____; _____; and _____.

p. ________ 

Class motto: Carpenters ….

p. ________ 

Safety video address:

p. ________ 

Blog address:

p. ________ 

Zartler’s email:

p. ________ 

One or two versions of the Design Cycle with notes

p. ________ 

Clamping pressure diagrams

p. ________ 

Notes on what surfaces are glueable; the first rule of glue ups

p. ________

Notes on  wood grain and lumber

p. ________

Notes on how to draw three-dimensional objects; examples of the three primary views of working drawings

p. ________

Notes on Sanding and sand paper

p. ________

Notes on planning; machine and hand

p. ________

Notes on hand planes

p. ________

Order of operations in woodworking

November 12-15: Practice / Demo / Do

Class time has mostly been focused on

Practicing
Demoing
and
Doing

your woodworking. 

There are a variety of tasks and projects that you can work on to help the shop run more smoothly if you are waiting for a machine, or have to wait till next class to start a glue up.

Projects include:
Router bit holder
Driver bit holder
Computer monitor stand


REMEMBER: 
DO NOT start a glue up with less than 45 minutes remaining in class. 

You will want to remove the partially dried "boogery" glue thirty minutes after clamping your work.

Nov 7/ 8 Introduction to Hand Planes

We have several types of hand planes in the shop.

All planes follow the cat petting rule.

Two main types are bench planes and block planes: these are defined by how the blade works.

We also have spoke shaves.

There are other types of specialty planes as well.

Planes are amazing, you can change the dimensions of a board by two-thousandths of an inch with very little practice (and a sharp blade).

Here is a handy technique:

November 4-8

Quarter grades are posted.

Next week I will change non-graded scores for the test and demos of: Drill Press; Bandsaw; Miter Saw (chop saw); Planner; and Machine Sanders from no grade to "0". This is to give you advance notice of what your grade will look like at the semester if these machines are not yet mastered.

Remember to follow this order of operations: