16th April

Tools used: Radial saw, 8m tape measure, builders pencil, chisel, hammer, hand saw, clamp

Safety gear: ear muffs, steel caps

Today we started with Mark taking our group through the radial saw. First we went through the safety - using ear muffs and safety glass, plus lose clothing, keeping a clean work area etc..
Then we all went through the process of measuring and cutting lengths of wood [480mm and 330mm lengths of  100mm by 50mm that we would later use to practice chiseling.



The exercise was to join the 4 pieces of wood together with a hole of 300mm by 300mm using a half housing join and the other side tapered housing join, using the chisel, hammer and hand saw.

We were also show how to sharpen the chisels using a shapening stone.