Week 10!

We had our last stl lesson presentations this week.  They were pretty good today.  The activities were engaging and they were things that I wanted to do so it wasn't a chore to do them.  I kinda want to talk about my woods project that im working on.  I am building the writing desk and of the three options that were available to us i thought my Paige could use a little desk when she gets older for school and stuff.  Tate and I will make something else so he can have that experience with me but I decided to give the desk to Paige.  Its coming along really well.  I wasn't making good progress on it last week and then I decided that I was going to speed up and do things my way instead of looking at the plans so much.  In the beginning you have to look at the plans because I didn't make my own plans so I was using someone else's idea and it is a little complicated but now its really coming together.  Today I cut the drawer rings to fit inside the desk and give it some much needed structure.  We have a dado blade set for the table saws but there are so many students in the class and they are all trying to use the same dado set so i just went over to the table saw and did the work way quicker because I wasn't feeling the pressure to hurry up so some one else can use it.  because i decided to go this route, Im farther ahead than I would have expected to be and Im feeling good about the whole thing.  I even had the whole thing put together as a pre-dry fit and I am very pleased with my own work.  It may not be the coolest thing ive ever made but it is by far the finest thing I have ever made.  I have never used so many good tools and machines.  I have never really had the chance to work with anything but plywood and pine 2x4s.  That is the stuff you can buy at home depot and so my work was construction site grade.  Im going on too long with this but im having fun except for the little quizzes that Dr. C has to make the class a class.  If it was just go work in the wood shop I would love this class.  As it is now, it stresses me out.