After a hiatus for edTPA, I starting working again on my bookcase. The going has been slow mostly because I do not want to screw up the boards I purchased. I passed a sign at one of the local schools today that said failure is the path to success if only you will learn from it, something like that at least, but failure does not really feel like an option when I am broke and paying thousands of dollars to spend 50-60 hours of my week on everything but this project; and if I screw up a board I go even more into debt.The stakes are high! Anyways, I have been sanding and surfacing boards to get them down to 0.75" thickness. I need to get all the boards to the same thickness or else the bookcase is going to look worse than the IKEA one I am trying to replace! I watched some videos on sanding to refresh my memory. I learned a great deal about different types and uses of sanding from this video. I knew about the different grits of paper and basic techniques, but this video helped focus on efficiency. I needed a refresher on planing/surfacing as well. I watched this video and this one to activate those long-since-used schema on how not to butcher the boards. All in all, the going is much slower than I wanted it to be, but I am chugging along. I will try to do some actual sawing before this project is over, but we will see. Thanks for reading! Edit: Here are some photos and a video from my second round of surfacing. I had to clean the surfacer too, which was definitely a learning experience!
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Staci Henry
5/8/2016 07:52:18 pm
Hi Chris,
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Ryan Murphy
5/9/2016 12:39:05 pm
Hey Chris,
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Staci Henry
5/9/2016 08:35:06 pm
I like the added video. I think I could smell sawdust.
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