Woodwork
- Do the following:
- Describe how timber is grown, harvested, and milled.
Tell how lumber is cured, seasoned, graded, and
sized.
- Collect and label blocks of six kinds of wood useful
in woodworking. Describe the chief qualities of
each. Give the best uses of each.
- Do the following:
- Show proper care and use of all working tools and
which you own or use at home or school.
- Sharpen correctly the cutting edges of two tools.
- Make something useful of wood. Use a saw, plane, hammer,
and brace and bit to make it. Cut parts from lumber
which you have measured and squared from working
drawings.
- Do the following:
- Make a working of a carpentry project. List the
material needed.
- Make it. Report on the time spent and cost of things
used.
- Do any TWO of the following:
- Make working drawings of a project needing
- Beveled or rounded edges or curved or incised
cuttings.
- Miter, dowel, or mortise and tenon joints. Make
it.
- Make something for which you have to turn
duplicate parts on a lathe.
- Make a cabinet, box or something else with a door or
lid fastened with inset hinges.
- Help make a repair wooden toys for needy children;
or help carry out a carpentry service project.
- Make a scale model of a house or barn.
- Talk with a cabinetmaker or carpenter. Find out job
opportunities and conditions, needed training,
apprenticeship, work hours, pay rates, and union
organization for woodworking craftsmen where you live.