Assessment piece-Wood work

Manufacture of a Sawhorse using Hand tools for my Building Construction  Industry Trades Organization qualification.

In Term 1 of 2021, I learned how to use hand tools to manufacture a Saw Horse to a specific size from a set of drawings. This took about 6 weeks (24 hrs) I will explain how to make a sawhorse in this blog post

Here are the parts of my finished project.

To make a sawhorse I carried out the following processes.

• This project was made by using hand tools only. No powered tools were used apart from a battery-powered drill to drill the holes for the screws.
• We followed a printed out instruction manual so that we could create our sawhorse project.
• We were given a 600mm piece of wood for the top of the Saw-Horse.
• We then marked out the joints for the legs which were 150mm in from the ends and then at a 15* angle we marked out to the outer edge of the piece for the joint.
• We repeated this process for the other 3 joints.
• The width of the joints was 55mm at the bottom and 45mm at the top.
• The joints were then cut out into sections using a saw and then we cut out the joints using a chisel.
• We used a chisel to smooth out the joints to make them flat.
• We marked out the legs using a pencil and a sliding bevel and cut and planed them down to the correct size.

• We replicated this process for the other 3 legs.
• The position of the screws was then marked on the legs.
• We then screwed the legs into the joints using a screwdriver and a power drill.
• Supports were then cut for the 2 ends and the plates to support the legs and the short beam underneath and were screwed to the sawhorse.

In this assessment, the tools we needed to use to make a sawhorse were:

- Tenon saw

- engineered square

- pencil

- ruler

- Sliding bevel

- marking gauge

- hand plane

I carried out the following processes to make my sawhorse

• Marking out the top.

• Cutting the joints

• Hand sewing the leg ends.

• Marking out / planing the legs

• Fixing the legs

• Attaching the end piece and supports.

I enjoyed learning about new tools and ways to create new things to help in the future.

I found creating the hole for the joints the most difficult part. I overcame this by asking for some help and guidance.

WOOD WORK

In wood work we have bean making bear openis it only took me under an 1hor to make.
On my bear opner i put love you grandad.
I maed it for my grandad becuse he has somuch bear in one year i maed him one.
I told him youcan you the chrismis bear opner for themouth of chrasmas and the wood one i maed him he can ues it druing the year.
He loved it so much when he got home he weant to go try it.

Photows coming soon