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Firday- Community Center Class: Practical Woodworking for Beginners
"Well, we survived the painful introductions, now on to the fun stuff," Dwight said as he addressed those who had gathered for the class that day. "We are going to start off with a simple overview of the topic of this class-What is woodworking?
Woodworking is the process of making decorative and useful objects from wood. This can include things like cabinets, fine pieces of furniture, bowls, decorative art pieces, musical instruments, and more. It encompasses techniques like wood carving, joinery, and woodturning. The basics are simple in theory but it is with practical and repeated experience and hands-on practice that true woodworking skills start to come out.
That is what the goal of this class is- to have you making creative and practical wood pieces of your own. As civilization has advanced, so has woodworking as a craft. While the fundamentals remain largely unchanged, woodworkers are using modern technology to build new equipment and tools and create more advanced projects. So let's start with some of the basics you need to know!"
Woodworking is the process of making decorative and useful objects from wood. This can include things like cabinets, fine pieces of furniture, bowls, decorative art pieces, musical instruments, and more. It encompasses techniques like wood carving, joinery, and woodturning. The basics are simple in theory but it is with practical and repeated experience and hands-on practice that true woodworking skills start to come out.
That is what the goal of this class is- to have you making creative and practical wood pieces of your own. As civilization has advanced, so has woodworking as a craft. While the fundamentals remain largely unchanged, woodworkers are using modern technology to build new equipment and tools and create more advanced projects. So let's start with some of the basics you need to know!"
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Jointing
Jointing is the process of preparing the edges of wooden boards for gluing them to another board. It is commonly used for both flat surfaces and angled joints.
Planing
Planing is used to smooth and remove excess material from wooden surfaces using a planer machine or hand tool.
Routing
Routing is the process of shaping, cutting, and trimming wood. The technique produces finished edges and shapes using a tool called a router, which is commonly used for cutting grooves in cabinets and furniture.
Sawing
Almost every woodworking project starts with cutting down wood with a sawing technique. There are many different types of saws used for different types of projects.
Drilling
Drilling creates holes in the wood using a drill and bit. The drill driver spins the drill bit clockwise or counterclockwise. The type of drill bits you use will depend on the size of hole you need to create, the material you are working with, or the speed of the bit. The range of sizes of drill bits varies vastly across 47 different sizes of standard drill bits.
Gluing
Gluing wood joins two or more pieces of wood together to create a larger piece. When you glue two pieces of wood together properly, the glued joint is stronger than the wood itself.
Sanding
Sanding is a finishing technique that smooths the surface of the wood using sandpaper. Woodworkers often start sanding with a medium grit, and work their way to a finer grit to finish.
These are not all the terms and processes you will know or use in woodworking but they are a good starting point and are the common ones everyone should be familiar with. So for the class activity today, we will discuss these terms more in depth and start thinking about how they would apply to an actual woodworking project.
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Better yet, she should just make Blackstone buy her some, since she was the whole reason she was roped into this thing in the first place.
Class Activity- Discussion
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"Well," she said, with one particular project looming pretty large in her head at the moment, "something like dealing with the wooden bits of an archery target is likely to deal with a lot of sawing, planing, and routing, mostly, I guess."
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