Welcome to my blog! Over the next 6-7 weeks I will be learning basic woodworking
techniques. This is for a school project, but I am looking forward to it. I
have chosen woodworking because it is a valuable skill to have later in life,
and makes for a very enjoyable hobby. Having a basic knowledge of woodworking
is also a great way to save money, with only a small investment in time.
Woodworking can be used to make both things of great beauty and function.
Woodworking was not the first thing that came to mind to devote these six weeks
to. My first thought was something involving computers, but am either learning
or already have learned everything that interest me. My next idea was
photography. Photography is something I would still like to be good at some
day, but was not something easily tailored to the needs of this project. Then I
came up with woodworking. It is something my dad has always enjoyed, and is a
very important hobby of his. He would be able to help and advise me throughout,
and all the necessary tools are already available. I plan to spend my first week or two learning about basic techniques, and researching a good design, or designs, to build to help me learn about many valuable woodworking skills. The next four weeks I will spend obtaining supplies, which consists mainly of raw lumber, and the necessary tools to manipulate this raw resource, and then building final project. At the moment I am thinking of building a simple chair, and if I have the time, making something small, such as a small box. I look forward to
starting.
