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HW-2:
Hat/Keychain Rack
Hat/Keychain Rack
Old Brainstorm
Old Brainstorm
For this homework, I was inspired by my constant frustration that my Dad leaves his phone in random places in the house, so thought I could solve this by creating a phone holder to have by his desk. However, I soon realized after a few cuts that cutting a hole out of the wood is very difficult.
New Brainstorm
New Brainstorm
I decided to go with this option instead because I realized I liked how it had very clear discrete components. Also I like wearing hats... a lot
The Process
The Process
The general process that I tried to adhere to was:
Measure and cut 6" pieces from the 36" wood pieces I bought from Blick
Measure and cut 4"-long dowels from the 36"-long dowel
Measure and cut 1"x 1" cubes for the stoppers
Drill holes in the cube stoppers
Drill holes in the base
Glue the stoppers onto the dowels
Glue the dowels into their base piece
Cutting/Sawing
Cutting/Sawing
From this process, I learned to love the bandsaw and fear the mitre saw. The latter came from my surprise at its weight because I didn't realize how heavy it would be even for performing a simple up/down gesture. That being said, once I used the bandsaw, I found cutting multiples pretty straightforward.
Cut base pieces
Cut dowels
Cut cube stoppers
Drilling
Drilling
This part went meh because after a while, I realized I was using a 29/64 drill bit instead of 1/2" so I had to go back and expand/re-drill my holes.
When I took this picture (of a 29/64" hole), I think I had forced the dowel in or something made me think I could continue working w/ this bit (and I'm an idiot) when clearly I could not.
Confirmation that the dowel could go through the hole...
Finally the dowels fit once I used a 1/2 drill bit...
These are probably a bit off...
Drilled base pieces and cube stoppers
Gluing
Gluing
Overall, this process was pretty seamless because the gluing I had to do was just to ensure the dowels stuck in the holes/cubes.
My first pancake where the heights were embarrassingly off, so I just had to make lemonade out of this lemons
These versions were the ones whose dowel heights once assembled were the most level...
Final Result
Final Result
My Pancakes
My Pancakes
I drilled too far...
Just testing out the distance between the dowels; I realized 1" from the edges was not far enough
Final Notes
Final Notes
My lessons from this homework are:
Buy even more material when starting (2x the expected amount)
Measuring is hard! Especially with finer measurements...
I need to be wary of tracing/cutting/sanding at an angle. This had an unfortunate snowball effect...Once I started tracing at an angle, so I started cutting an an angle; thus the already not straight thing became even less straight.
Shoutout to:
Shoutout to:
Akshita
Alan
Chloe
Kseniia
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