Today we started class at 8:30 and the plan for today was to spend some time editing our previous blogs - to make sure that we catch all mistakes - and we also were to finish milling, resawing, and dimensioning our raw wood so that we can use it for our boxes. Whenever we had free time or we weren't able to be on the saw we were finalizing our larger projects' plans by making a cut list and a purchase list. I have already bought my plywood when we went to the lumberyard yesterday so I just had to make a cut list. Once we did all of that it was lunchtime. After lunch we received a lesson on miter cuts, rabbets, and dados; cuts that we would use to assemble our boxes later. Miter cuts are diagonal cuts where the edges meet like this but at a 45 degree angle ---> /\. Dados are used to cut out a groove in the middle of a board so that something can slide into that space. Rabbets are like dados but on the edge of the board. I have finished doing the miter cuts on my pieces of wood and just need to do the dados and rabbets tomorrow, and then I can glue my box together.
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