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SW9 Woodshop 2025

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May 2

Wobbly at work
  • 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

The bould Matt Murphy

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
  • 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
Hatch’s stock break out board prep

Feb 7, 2025

  • Rory: “what we do here has so much to do with discretion& intuition
  • 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

Phong also showed me how this heckin’ chonker gouge is used: I will work up the courage to give it a go some day. See Carmon’s steady rest in the background: I’d like to use that some day.

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

From BCIT OER: Woodworking Machinery

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.

Rory’s mention of the chain and belt setup in the new planer helped me understand the difference/connection between speed {HP} and torque (eureka!)
  • 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.
~NOM NOM NOM WON WON WON NOM NOM NOM WON WON WON~
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

Look out for these at UBC/BCIT.
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


Ask around and find out (AAFO): dial indicator
  • 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