Wood workshop induction

Callipers:

Box:

To introduce the Tech Arts class to woodwork we made 2 items, callipers and box. (Callipers are used for transferring measurements from objects to your piece of work accurately.)

The callipers are made of beech wood, shaped with machine sanders and handheld sandpaper and painted with linseed oil. The close up image shows the hinge where we used a hack saw and chisel to remove a section so the two parts slot together perfectly.

The box just involved a lot of hammering, drilling and sanding. The box was made in an afternoon and the callipers in one day. Suprising what you can do.

Eager to use wood in my next project.