Starting my second semester at Swarthmore College, I began working in the Maker Space. I work a few shifts a week as a tech, helping people learn how to use tools to make things out of wood, sew, vinyl cut, laser cut, and 3d print. I am also able to work on independent projects and clean/maintain the space.

Inspired by the guitar stand, I wanted to make a chair that would loosely belong in a set. I learned that woodworking is so much more powerful when it is a component of a set or there are other things to go along with it. My first version was a draft that was optimized to be made out of one piece of plywood I found in the shop, which resulted in it being very small. The second version was larger, and I used a CNC router to cut the three main pieces, one of which includes a dato slot. Then the angles were cut on the table saw.

3 Piece Wooden Chair - The first version

Pedal Board

Laser cut wood grain experiments

The guitar stand was the first project that I made in the semester. It was my own design and a way to simply make a guitar stand out of a 2x4, but with complex angles, joints, and cuts. I first designed it in Fusion 360 and then cut the pieces and assembled them.

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