Prepping for Construction

Yesterday, about half the class met at JMO Woodworks to begin milling and cutting dado's into our boards. We formed an assembly line of sorts with Elissa and me ripping the boards of various widths down to a uniform 1 1/2" square, and cutting the longest pieces to length, 8' to be exact. After being [...]

Scouring for Materials

Professor Pastre brought Becca and me along today to meet with Bob Lisi, executive vice president of Dolphin, a design / build firm. Bob has agreed to allow us to use whatever scraps might be left over at each construction site that would otherwise go to waste. The first site we visited was a construction [...]