Weston Middle School

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Shop Safety

• Safety Rules and Safety Agreement (MS Word)
• Safety Rules ( web page)
• Box Project Planning Sheet
• Bandsaw Safety
• Router Safety

Drawing

• Alphabet of lines
• Sanding Block Sketch
• Sanding Block-SketchUp
• Box Project Planning Sheet
• Furniture Planning Sheet

General Information

• Lumber Prices and Information
• Sandpaper

Furniture

• Zen Stools
• Adirondack Chair-1
• Adirondack Chair-2
• Garden Bench
• Thoreau Desk
• Simple Bench

Images

• Box Model
• Carousel Toy
• Homer Simpson
• Bandsaw Box Templates
• Yin-Yang box
• Lap Joint
• Miter Saw Angles
• Alchemy Symbols
• Sunburst Symbol
• Hex-box

SketchUp for Woodworkers:

Should be watched individually by students using a separate window or on Ipad with headphones, stopping video periodically and copying techniques.

Day 1:

• Getting Started in Google SketchUp (Video-Building a House)

  Introduces SketchUp tools and techniques- recta

• Getting Started in Google Sketchup Part 2

  Introduces dimensioning, Adding/subtracting selection, Move Tool,
  Offset Tool, Follow Me

• Getting Started in Google SketchUp, Part 3

Designing Interiors, Offset Tool, Components, matching dimensions

• The Wood Whisperer: SketchUp Tutorial #1
• The Wood Whisperer: SketchUp Tutorial#2
• The Wood Whisperer: SketchUp Tutorial#3

  See also SketchUp for Woodworkers

More SketchUp Files ( need Google SketchUp to open)

• Sanding Block
• Board mark-up for Miter Saw
• Simple Box
• Box Model 2
• Box 3
• Box Details
• Coinbox
• Six-Sided box
• Barbed Hinge Detail
• TableTop
• Mortised Table Leg
• Rail with Tenons
• Doug Stowe Box#1
• Doug Stowe Box #2
• Doug Stowe Box #3

How-to Videos

• The Apprentice and the Journeyman
• The Wood Whisperer
• Paul Ruhlmann-BB&N- I Tunes U

  Go to I-Tunes U App--Catalog--K12-- National Association of Independent Schools--NAIS Arts Videos--Making a Small Wooden Box

• Prowoodworkingtips.com

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