the objective is to make a box (with wood) that feels like me.
wanted to make a box that isn’t just a box. think of it as a panel opening into another panel which opens into another panel … and so on.
ian helped me with gaining confidence about my thought. he also told me that this might take way longer that i anticipate.
got a big piece of wood; found hinges.
cut the wood many times to get a good cuboid.
used the drill to make holes.
used the dremmel to make the circles squares.
made a boo-boo by not considering that a cube has adjacent sides, and that holes must account for that. prachi was right when she said i can’t think in 3-dimensions.
also cut the wrong size for the lid.
decided to start again, after a conversation with ian.
first looked at the hinges to calculate depths required.
drew it all out instead of doing it in my brain.
realised it’s better to make sure that the saw is on the outside of the line i want to cut at, and not at the line. extra surface can always be sanded down, but more surface cannot be added.
ian showed me how to create a sink for the screw, so that the screw doesn’t crack the wood. used his personal drill-bit.
dremelled the inside, with more caution & with more time.
attached the hinges wrong, but liked it. kept it. it’s playful.
realised that the course will make me make 7 projects. in line with my theme for intro-to-fabrication, i stuck a small map in my room which shall help me derive words for and from each object, to better understand myself.
for the box:
i couldn’t sleep with an unfinished outcome. so, i wanted to drill in more holes and sand it. but the drill was busy, and the shop closed by the time i got my hands on it.
while waiting, i needed to do something. so, i found paint and painted the entire box.
maybe i’m also impulsive & impatient.
realised that the tools & material we work with have some amount of control over our outcome. we mustn’t fight that — it’s never going to turn out exactly as you envisioned it. it shouldn’t; the things you work with should have some control.
and, also, that there is no room for impatience in fabrication. it takes the amount of time it needs to take, forced to fulfil its eigenzeit.