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 [...]
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 [...]
Another day another studio. We are entering the culmination of projects in the shop between individual components of the Studio Pavilion and the newly Intro to Craft project. The shop is becoming clustered with incoming materials, materials needed to cut, and materials in progress. . The big goal for this week, is to begin [...]
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 [...]
Today’s class was spent at the presentation of the Homecoming project the undergraduates designed for a community. It was a pleasure to see their ideas and to hear how they developed the concept behind them. Afterward, we split into groups to help turn their designs into pieces we could fabricate for our ITC class. That [...]
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 [...]