Saw Stool

• Housing Joint 

• Legs:

- How to fit into housing?
Mark the angle of the housing joint onto the leg and cut off that angle and plan the other side for it to slide in easily.

- How to fix? eg. nails, screws etc.
Apply glue first then hammer the nails in between the thickness of the sawhorse and prevent hammering the nail on an angle or else it will stick out through the surfaces of the top or bottom.

-What steps were there cutting legs to size?
Having the sawhorses legs face upwards and getting a large tri-square placed with the X axis placed flat on the table and the Y axis facing upwards leaning against the leg for the measurement and to check if the measurement is accurate we placed another normal tri-square up against the large tri-square so that it keeps a 90 degree angle.

• Cleats:

- How did we mark out?
placed the timber in front of the legs having the end of the timber close to the edge of the legs that way theres less more timber wastage for another cleat. We placed the timber in front of the legs and marked the angle inside of the legs. forming a triangle shape.

- How to get nice and tight?
plane the side of the legs so that there angled for the cleat to be place on it flat with no gaps underneathy it.

- Tricks in planing.
plane straight with the planer placed flat on the timber surface. Also have pencil markings to indicate where your planing and how much your planing off. Always make sure the blade is sharp and when not using planer place it down with the blade facing side ways and facing down onto the table or store away in the place it gets stored away in.

• Braces:

- How to mark out?
measure 50mm from the end of the timber on opposite sides diagonal from each other then draw a line connecting the 50mm measured line to each other.

- What was tricky?
sawing the timber in half. I found it tricky because i switched sides after sawing one side and made the mistake of sawing the other side aswell. and drilling the holes for the nails to hammered into.

- Which tools?
the drill. Because you had to make sure that when you drill the hole that its not angled or tilt to one side or else when the nails get hammered in it will come out of the timber and create an ugly look.

• Finishing:

- How and why?
by sanding of the pencil marks, scratches, hammer marks so it looks clean and so it brings out the grain and has an effective look when its polished making it a good quality project to sell  it also creates a nice smooth surface.