28/02/2011

Day 4

today for the most of the day we were doing a jointing excercise.

Stopped halving joint

Corner Half Lap Joint

Half lap joint with one side dovetail

after afternoon lunch we were in the classroom, throughout the jointing excercise i was learnin alot, i learned how to read the plan for the joints and i learnt what types of joint i waz doing. the tools i used during the excercise were a cobination square, crosscut saw, tenon saw

Hand sawz

Hand sawz research


herez sum links on keepin ur tools well maintanined

http://www.rockler.com/articles/easy-tool-maintenance-how-to.cfm

http://www.ehow.com/video_4950787_removing-rust-hand-tools.html

Christchurch earthquake

theses are da buildings which are damaged:

• Cathedral
• Copthorne Hotel, Colombo St
• Provincial Chambers, Cnr Durham & Armagh Street
• Pyne Gould, Cambridge Terrace
• Forsyth Barr, Colombo Street
• Press Building, Cashal St
• Canterbury TV, Madras St
• Chch Star, Tuam St
• Christ College, Rolleston Ave
• Piko Wholefoods, Kilmore Street

these are pictures of the disaster:

  

the area of earth quake:

23/02/2011

DAY 3

Health and Safety

For most of the day we were learning about health and safety, what was health and safety and why it is in place.

Wooden Frames
after lunch we were ouside cutting  out pine wood and making a wooden frame, what i learn out of making wooden frames is what it is used for and why it is there]

22/02/2011

DAY 2

today we were in the computer lab learnin how to log in nd get our log in username and password. after our morning tea break we pracriced sinngning and then we went to the marae. after luch break we went into the workshop and had a bit of lesson of how to cutt wood with a tenon saw

21/02/2011

Day 1

today we went around manukau M.I.T to find out what is was like and also we found out where everything was, we did most of the walking the whole day, just after lunch break we had a few excersises where we had to estimate distances and also we had excersises on cutting and hammering nails in...