Update on the woodworking school

After 2 busy months at Don Bosco, we have a week of vacation. We learned basic techniques with hand tools, then how to use machines (jointer, thicknesser, table saws, tenoning machine, shaper/moulder), with an emphasis on safety, then spent quite some time on veneering. This is not my favorite subject, but it is part of the course, and certainly teaches me to improve quality of finishing (my weak point!). Here are the exercises:

That’s me in the school workshop.

A stool in ash, with top in veneered MDF.

Detail of the same

We also spend 3 hours per week on technical drawing. This is quite unlike any mechanical drawings I did before, and I think it is unique to woodworking, since most drawings are done at a scale of 1:1, and all 3 views are superimposed on the same sheet. Difficult to read, but very useful to capture the construction details.