Header image: ﻼF
May 2


- board foot: 12 x 12 x 1 (volume measurement)
- Rutland Senior Secondary Forestry Program: Vernon – 7 blocks – (Marshall Corbett)
- Greg Cormier; West Van
- Moisture 9-12%
- Paint ends to prevent “end checks“
- Cant cut
- “Chainsaws with Children” – Direct supervision (Kevin [BA, MFA]: ‘Staging’)
- BC BigTree Registry
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” ― Joe Girard

April 22
- Spent some time shadowing Jason as he guided and encouraged the students through the tethered airplane challenge.
- Fascinating to learn some more about how little I know about such things.

- Met Torben Markussen-Brown again 🥁
- Great chat with Carmon
- The stigma of IEPs and the RTBF: What IEPS do for/to students
- Teachers ganging up on students; Skippy @Bish
April 11: How do we build a culture / structure of safety in the woodshop?

- Mark: Rory’s comfort, saying “I cut myself on that machine too” and how that hit
- RB: “someone will injure themselves in your class…never miss the opportunity to remind your admin that more students hurt themselves in PE class!
- Pushstick = 1 mark; “sacrificial pushstick” = 2 marks
- “do you understand the difference between my turn and your turn?
- KF: STEP
- KF: classroom / staffroom
- Clapping: microaggression; Calum

April 4: Fielded panel
- a raised or recessed panel with a wide flat surface surrounded by moldings
- also: such a panel divided into smaller panels

- || stile = rail; panel; mullion:?
- Shaker door
- 3/4″ ~ 19mm standard stock
- Router table used
- Scott: geology
- Adam: psych
- Micro-aggression of clapping for late comers

April 2

- Defensive posturing [NB: for demo lessons]
- Being able to put desks away; teacher decides when students sit/stand
- control
- Seating plan [control]: strong message of “this is a workspace”
- Students hate it
- Organically dissolves
- “Currency of the realm is ‘understanding’”
- … or “relationships”
- Scott; moment
- Car in hoist for six weeks while working on electrics; challenging
- Not a fan, prefers auto, but rewarding when finished
- Car in hoist for six weeks while working on electrics; challenging
- Jackson: spirituality
- Repeat the question! (can’t hear! ME speaks quietly)

Feb 21: “Potlatch Arts”
- Rory: “How I did this, 12 years ago”
- OER Indigenous colouring book
– teaching technology, not culture –
– not learning about; doing to learn about –
- increasing elective options requires collegial conversation
- education as redistribution
- Anneal: heat (metal or glass) and allow it to cool slowly, in order to remove internal stresses and make it easier to work (recall Ditchmore’s shop).
- Alex: Assessment? [entirely made up; everyone got 95]
- Adequate
- “You should leave your children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing” – Warren Buffett
- Drum: “this is what got us all the press”
- Maria: writeup?
- MOA in 452
- Caverly pro-D, deer thing
- Hatch: learning “inspire by”
- Aboriginal Support Worker
- Display case idea; shavings [wood & metal]
Feb 14
- Cove cutting

Feb 7, 2025
- Rory: “what we do here has so much to do with discretion& intuition”
- ﻼF: Discernment
- Teacher tip: “don’t compete with yourself”
- letting machine cycle down; handouts
- Avoiding (lash): lower, then raise table
- Carmon suggested Titebond III to fix bowl 6

Jan 31, 2025
Today was such a great day of learning that it gets to be its own page. We heard tell of thickness planers, “salad days“, gibs, malapropisms, dial indicators, and Spanish speaking coonhounds.
∞
Phong told me about Chris Fisher, AKA “The Blind Woodturner.” When Phong speaks, we listen and learn.
(Jan 12, 2023) Chris Fisher – the Blind Woodturner – turning in the face of adversity
https://www.thewoodworkermag.com/chris-fisher-–-blind-woodturner-–-turning-face-adversity
- Having been diagnosed with Toxoplasmosis – a parasitic infection – at the age of 38, within four weeks, Chris had lost his sight completely.
- Chris is completely self-taught and prior to trying his hand at turning once he’d lost his sight, had no experience whatsoever.
Check out his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BlindWoodTurner/videos

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Brother Roderick‘s oration of the day was on the subject of thickness planers.

We learned of the three kinds of blades – straight [carbide cintered {cf. welding} to HSS], Tersa™, and carbide – and how these blades scoop up thickness from a board.
I noticed only two others were taking notes and wondered if the others do and, if not, how they remember all this stuff.

- The carbide blades are the same as the ones I saw being sharpened in the jointer; arranged in a helical pattern, when the blades are exposed it’s like looking into the mouth of a great white shark. This machine is, by far, the fastest way to trim your toenails.

Blades tightened with a torque limiting screwdriver
Rory’s mention that, when using an infeed table,
“We always use the middle of a machine”
makes me think of “desire paths“

What do these tell you about designers/planners and people/users?
(Oct 5, 2018) Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/oct/05/desire-paths-the-illicit-trails-that-defy-the-urban-planners

- Eric and Kester helped me understand how an oval bowl is made. This is probably “obvious / common sense” for most other folk, but I can’t quite wrap my head around it. I kind of get it but I will need to make one myself before it clicks [watch].
- Kevin dashed my hopes of Dremmeling a Möbius strip out of a piece of soft wood I had and then rekindled the dream by returning with a suggestion that sounded quite complicated but doable.
I have added this to my to try/do list. Good save, Kevin. - Lily helped me get this chonker of a nail out of a bowl I was turning and suggested a way to save the piece: it involves a sawing a chiselling, things I have little experience of but look forward to learning.

To do:
- Pester Kester for further guidance/assistance on making his senior project
- Never again confuse a malapropism with a spoonerism; I should stick to decapitated coffee in the mornings.
- Check out BCIT OER: Woodworking Machinery