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Students work with vocabulary words associated with tools and their actions. In this tool vocabulary lesson plan, students examine a worksheet that shows tasks that need to be completed.
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The material is often rushed through seasoning and will add all kinds of headache to the milling process. You will be better served to spend a little more and buy a hardwood. These woods will be harder obviously and they will give you a much better sense of how hand tools work with harder woods.
Pine and other softer woods can actually cause more problems for someone just learning to sharpen their tools too since soft woods require an even sharper edge. Reclaimed and pallet wood is popular today but I urge you to avoid it on this first project. You are adding a variable that could be avoided and could just lead to frustration. Challenge is good and it will improve your skills, but stock quality if not a challenge that I think the beginner should have to face when the cost per board is not that much different from Pine to Cherry or Walnut.
That stuff is dirt cheap for a reason. Skip a couple trips to Starbucks and I bet you could easily cover the cost difference.
When choosing the wood for your project, choose it for the color you want to end up with. Make your life easier and plan to use a clear coat finish. Finishing is a skill unto itself and it is one more variable that can sour your experience. These above concessions will severely limit what you build in your first trip out but that is the point. At the same time there are infinite variations that can come from this kind of blank slate project that allow for creative license. If not during this first build, perhaps on the second or third build where you opt to add in some complexity.
With these in mind I suggest the following projects. The top will teach you how to plane and join boards into a wider panel which is probably one of the most fundamental of processes in furniture making.
Everybody could use a bookshelf. Focus on one that is but no more than 4 shelves. Anything taller and you add in complexity with working with longer stock. You will get a bunch of experience gluing up panels and I would urge you to buy stock that is specifically narrower than your shelves to get this experience. You can choose to build the entire thing using dados or you could build it all with mortise and tenon joinery. Fix at least one shelf in the middle and make the rest adjustable or make them all fixed and increase the number of joints you have to cut thereby increasing the learning experience.
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