Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Final Project Update #2- Aaron Johnson



Today in the shop, I really got to work on my tabletop and bottom shelf. The bottom shelf went fairly smoothly. I only had to rip a 2x board to size, drilled a few holes to the previously made base and screwed in the needed screws into place.

  



 I then got to work on the actual tabletop. Before, I was going to just place a 2x12 board and be done with it. However, I decided to slightly widen the table so that it was a foot wide, which is wider than the true size of a 2x12 board. So instead I decided to rip down the board into 3 4” wide boards, as seen below.

   




 From there I then glued the boards and clamped them together to give it its initial shape and stability.  After, with some advising, I added some pocket screws to the board to ensure that the boards didn’t separate.

Overall the day went smoothly with very little hiccups. I was pleased to find that the building of the table is becoming easier as time goes on. 

No comments:

Post a Comment