DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Today's activities primarily included progress on Introduction to Craft projects as we look forward to installation onsite this Friday/Saturday. The shop has become a maze of lumber with four additional projects going on alongside the additional thermally modified wood we received to start putting the partition walls together. Onoe of the groups wrapped up their [...]
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 [...]
With the utilization of new technology comes lessons in checking for errors and optimizing settings. As cuts progressed over the weekend, the CNC was no different. First, we learned to double check the placement of clamps to ensure proper clearance for the CNC's cutting head to pass. A 1/2" difference in placement caused the head [...]
During Friday's studio, we were joined by Matt who has been helping us prepare CNC files for the wall members. Up until now, Matt has taken the lead in test cuts and managing the CNC, however, during Friday's class he took time to teach a group of us how to operate the machine. We went [...]
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 [...]