Flat Pack Childs Chair - Practical Diary

16/02/07

Today, now that I had my pieces cut into manageable sizes, I started doing the fiddly stuff. First of all I started cutting down the left side of my chair on the scroll saw. But just as I finished, and removed my wood, and was about to turn the machine off, the blade broke. I am still not sure how that happened. So I continued my work with a coping saw, I secured my MDF tightly into a bench clamp, and carefully sawed around he face and neck of the giraffe. I was really pleased at how that had gone, it looked neat, and I just sanded off some rough edges with some glass paper, and it looked very nice and child friendly. I then spent the remainder of the lesson squaring off the seat, front and back of the chair.

Next lesson I plan to cut the slots out of all of my pieces, and if I finish that, start neatening up the second giraffe shaped piece of MDF.

5/3/07

Today, with all of my pieces cut out, I started cutting out the slots that the pieces would go into to put the chair together. I used the scroll saw for this because it is the fastest way to do it, and after the next lesson I am missing a week as I am on a German Exchange, so I had to work very productively, and make the very most of the time I had. I think I did very well in the time given, and managed to cut out all but 2 of the slots, which is quite a lot considering there are so many slots on my chair. For homework I decided to take the sides of my chair home, so I could sand them down and save the lesson time for things that could only be done in the lesson.

Next lesson I plan to continue cutting out the slots, and then start finishing off my chair with some sandpaper, sanding down all of the rough edges.