Finally got around to this little endeavor. Ever since I relocated my desk (3 years ago, remember that never ending cycle?) I haven't had a bulletin board. Had a great big sheet of glass that I wanted to lay over the desk to put stuff under. Well, I finally found my glass cutter and hauled the sheet of glass into school. Of course, my glass cutter was utter garbage, so I bought a cheap oil filled cutter off of ebay and tried it again. Turned out okay, although as you can see there were a few issues from trying to use the old cutter. Not pretty. What an amazing difference having a "good" tool makes.
dAnd another fun bonus is now I can write notes to myself on my desk with permanent marker. They're right there in my face where it's pretty hard to miss, and the marker comes off easier than dry erase markers do- but only if you give it a little squirt of Windex first.
Another "project" I've been working on is trying to make some type of clamp to hold our Roper-Whitney style metal punches. Kids were having to strain awful hard to punch holes and that's never save. To prevent smashed fingers here's what I came up with as a temporary fix:
So far it's working great. Has the added bonus of not tying up valuable bench space when we don't need them- just stow them in the cabinet. What's that in the back? Oh, just another project- a hot chocolate machine I scored from a gas station. Need to build a small cabinet for it to sit on, get it cleaned up, and put to work.
Sensing a theme yet? Here's one more. Picked up a scroll saw to play with thinking I could have students try it out as well.
I've got a couple of students coming in for "FLEX" to build custom Hot Wheels, and this may come in to play there. Not sure how much patience the average 7th grader will be able to expend on a project like this but we'll give it a go anyways!
And just for fun- and Idaho sunrise, as seen from out my shop door at school.
Now, if we could JUST GET PAST ELECTION DAY, life would be pretty darn good!
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