DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
These past weeks a team has been working on cutting the lumber of our market walls using the CNC for accuracy. After several mock-ups we had made of the walls where we dadoed by hand, we transitioned to using the CNC to ensure accuracy and that all the walls will fit together perfectly. The [...]
Thursday and Friday Recap! I'm going to throw it back to late last week when the crews were rolling along, knocking things out, and getting it done. The welding crew were hard at work finishing the last of the wall panels while the rest of the steel crew were working on setting up the overhead [...]
It's been busy in the shop. On Friday, we welded one of the overhead steel bays to completion. This was originally our mockup, which turned out well that it will now become one of the final bays! Throughout the process, we learned a lot about how to improve our workflow. We realized that the bay [...]
It was a busy day for us down in the shop. The day had come. No, not the day we break ground, but the day that we finally received our thermally modified pine for our wall panels. The pallet of materials was dropped off outside in the morning, and we brought it all inside to [...]
If you've been following along with the blog for the past week, you know that we are staying busy in the shop between studio work, Metanoia's Reynolds Avenue Homecoming, and our Introduction to Craft (ITC) projects. If you're just tuning in now, here's a recap: While we wait for permiting and zoning to get approved [...]
As we're all working away in the woodshop I see this framed photo of Norm Abram in the office that takes me back to watching This Old House with my mom growing up, learning how to do all the same stuff we're doing in the woodshop now. Just a good reminder as to why I [...]
The studio had a nice fall break Monday and Tuesday... Wish that could last longer but --> Back to work!! Before we left for fall break last Friday we painted lots of our boards with one of our colors: French Toast. We spent a lot of time deciding the color palette for our walls/structure/trellis. We [...]
A quick week recap as we go into fall break! This past week, our steel team has been hard at work preparing the steel elements for the trellis. The process has been cutting all the metal down to size, punching holes in the parts that get connected to the columns, brushing/grinding off all the rust [...]
After selecting our paint colors based on how the gathering ground renderings looked, we purchased paint samples and tested each of them out on some scrap pieces of plywood. To get the proper color "experience", we went outside into the sunlight and compared each of the color samples with each other and some of [...]
Happy humpday and birthday-eve for myself and Vivan. Let's hit a humpday recap of our week so far. The team worked hard over the weekend to get everything ready to hit the ground running this week. On Monday, we finished priming our wooden [...]