Monday 19th March

At the beginning of the lesson i cracked onto applying my sanding sealer to one side of my wood pieces. When i had finished the piece i had started with had dried so i was able to sand it with wet dry sand paper. When i had finished doing that i managed to repeat it twice within the lesson time.Later that week on Wednesday i went at a lunch time do apply another coat onto my work. I only need one more layer to be added onto both sides before i can continue forward and begin painting my work.

Friday 16th March

This lesson was used to look at diferent kinds of finished to add to my assembled chair. After careful thinking i decided to go with wood finish and spray painting on my colours. I started to sand my work to make a smooth surface that i would add the finish to, this needed to be neat otherwise i would have to sand off my finish to correct the error.By the end of the lesson i had finished applying my first coat to every piece of my chair.

Monday 12th march

Today i had to finish my chair assembly so i started with my usual filing of the slots. I had finished with my filing within 20 minuets and was able to move on making my chair look better. when it came to me assembling my chair i realised that my seat was not able to fit it in to the slot i had made in the chair back. First i had to change the slots so the seat moved up further then i had to make the slot bigger to complete my correction. Towards the end of the lesson i began to sand all mu edges to make it more attractive and safe for children. I have now a fully assembled chair that only need to be finished,

Friday 9th March

Today was the day i wasn't looking forward too, my day of filing. I relectently picked up the file at the beggining of the lesson and got to work straight away. It was boring work and after 30minuets my hand was red and i was only 3 quarters through my filing, i decided to do something different for 5minuets so i decided to make the hole in the back of my chair for which will hold the the seat in place. I drilled 5mm holes to then be able to fit in a coping saw to which cut out the section needed to be removed unfortunatly this was hard to cut accuratly and led to more filing. The lesson ended with my hands hurting and they joy of looking forward to spending the next lesson picking up a file to correct my mistakes.

Monday 5th March

This lesson i was determined to have my slots completly cut out so my pieces would fit together. After 20 mins i had finshed cutting out my slot pieces but instead of slotting together i had a problem to deal with, my cutting hadnt been accurate enough so just like with my container project i had the joyous occation of getting a file and starting the long labourious process of making my slots neat. This took me up to the end of the lesson with the job still unfinshed and will probably take me the whole of next lesson.

friday 2nd march

Last lesson i had started on the cutting of my wood and cut out my major pieces. This lesson i had to insert the slots into my chair, firstly i noticed that i had mis measured my work for a 6mm slot while i needed a 9mm gap. After changing this i started on my slots, i tried to cut as close as possible to the lines i drew to prevent having to waste time filing down edges. All my pieces are now seperate and i am nearly finished with my filing and tiding the sides up.

friday 16th february

After spending the last lesson putting the measurements of my chair onto my piece of MDF i was ready to begin cutting. I firstly started with the larger pieces so that i could concentrate on more detailed parts without having a large piece of wood weighting me down. I had to ask the teacher to cut the major parts of unsuable wood off due too the vastness of it would take to long to remove. After this i used a scroll saw to cut out my other pieces, my pieces were taking form and were looking good. I need a curve for the top of my chair back so i used the disc sander to form a nice, smooth curved egde, the completion of my project does not look that farway into the future, i look forward too continuing my work on my chair. :]