For Security Purposes...
Saturday, 21 April 2007
Friday, 20 April 2007
16.04.07
Here is the new projec starting. It is the nightlamp or nightlight. The project will last 6 weeks
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Saturday, 14 April 2007
Evaluation of My Flat Pack Chair Project
Evaluation of Flat Pack Chair Project
I have really enjoyed this project, and I can say without a doubt that I have learnt a number of new skills. An example of this is using the scroll saw properly by being now able to saw in a straight line. In my opinion, my chair is relatively aesthetically pleasing, although if you look closer, you can see and feel a few bumps/lumps where there has been an uneven coat of paint. I used two colours which were Electric Monza Blue and Cherry Red to improve the appearance of my chair. I think this has worked well, as I think the chair with one colour on its own would have looked slightly boring and would have been disliked by children because of this fact.
A negative point that I would comment on is the application of sanding sealer. Although I have produced a fabulous effect consisting of vibrant colours and a smooth finish, I found that the edges are slightly bare and you can see that the wood has absorbed the paint resulting in a relatively dull finish. This is an aspect of spraying MDF wood without any sealer as featured on my piece about wood finishes. I think that this is a result of paying more attention to the face of my pieces, and not my sides. Next time, I have learnt that I need to apply sealer all over my product, and not just the faces.
If I had more time with my product, I would have probably added vinyl to my product, which is always nice to see on a product, but I think that the stickers I attached to my product made up for the lack of vinyl, and hopefully I will not loose and marks for this.
To get ideas for my chair, I went into my kitchen and had a look at the chairs in there. I noticed that all my chairs are made from wood, but for added comfort they have cushions. I took of the cushion using the strings, and when I sat down I found it quite uncomfortable. This made me realise that when a child would sit on the chair, it would be very uncomfortable. This would follow with a lot of moaning to the child’s teacher or parent/guardian. To save this major annoyance, I used my mum’s sewing machine and a small amount of fabric to make a cushion using some of the textiles skills that I learnt in KS3.
One problem which occurred in my product was the fact that one of the sides snapped of. This was a problem, because it did not make it look as good. Thankfully, I managed to patch it up neatly using some stickers, so nobody I asked for feedback with noticed this. If I were to do this again, I would be much gentler with my product, because I do realise that the chairs are made from MDF, which is very fragile compared to soft wood or hard wood.
In conclusion, I have thoroughly enjoyed making my chair, and I am overall satisfied with the final outcome. From this project, I have acquired some new skills which I am proud of, and in my next project I feel that I will take these on board with me to strive to increase my marks and grades in resistant materials.
I have really enjoyed this project, and I can say without a doubt that I have learnt a number of new skills. An example of this is using the scroll saw properly by being now able to saw in a straight line. In my opinion, my chair is relatively aesthetically pleasing, although if you look closer, you can see and feel a few bumps/lumps where there has been an uneven coat of paint. I used two colours which were Electric Monza Blue and Cherry Red to improve the appearance of my chair. I think this has worked well, as I think the chair with one colour on its own would have looked slightly boring and would have been disliked by children because of this fact.
A negative point that I would comment on is the application of sanding sealer. Although I have produced a fabulous effect consisting of vibrant colours and a smooth finish, I found that the edges are slightly bare and you can see that the wood has absorbed the paint resulting in a relatively dull finish. This is an aspect of spraying MDF wood without any sealer as featured on my piece about wood finishes. I think that this is a result of paying more attention to the face of my pieces, and not my sides. Next time, I have learnt that I need to apply sealer all over my product, and not just the faces.
If I had more time with my product, I would have probably added vinyl to my product, which is always nice to see on a product, but I think that the stickers I attached to my product made up for the lack of vinyl, and hopefully I will not loose and marks for this.
To get ideas for my chair, I went into my kitchen and had a look at the chairs in there. I noticed that all my chairs are made from wood, but for added comfort they have cushions. I took of the cushion using the strings, and when I sat down I found it quite uncomfortable. This made me realise that when a child would sit on the chair, it would be very uncomfortable. This would follow with a lot of moaning to the child’s teacher or parent/guardian. To save this major annoyance, I used my mum’s sewing machine and a small amount of fabric to make a cushion using some of the textiles skills that I learnt in KS3.
One problem which occurred in my product was the fact that one of the sides snapped of. This was a problem, because it did not make it look as good. Thankfully, I managed to patch it up neatly using some stickers, so nobody I asked for feedback with noticed this. If I were to do this again, I would be much gentler with my product, because I do realise that the chairs are made from MDF, which is very fragile compared to soft wood or hard wood.
In conclusion, I have thoroughly enjoyed making my chair, and I am overall satisfied with the final outcome. From this project, I have acquired some new skills which I am proud of, and in my next project I feel that I will take these on board with me to strive to increase my marks and grades in resistant materials.
Friday, 13 April 2007
Lesson 8
Today in the lesson, I prepared to paint my chair. I will prefer to do this process at home, as it is in a more relaxed environment, but today in the lesson I added my final coat of sanding sealer. After spray painting my chair, I hope to add decorations such as stickers to improve the appearance of the chair, because after all it is for children.
Lesson 7
Today in the lesson, I added another coat of sanding sealer to my product. I am excited to spray paint my product and have decided to purchase the colour cherry red for my chair. Martin and I have decided to go with a two tone effect, and will share our different coloured paints so we both get two colours on our chairs. This will help, because I think children (the people who the chair is designed for) will prefer to sit on a multi coloured chair rather than a bland single coloured chair. Martin is buying paint of the colour electric Monza Blue.
Catch-Up Session 1
In the catch-up session today, I spent some time sanding down my work further in preparation for the afternoons lesson. Unfortunately, there was not enough time to add another coat of sanding sealer, but it didn’t matter, because I can just do that in today’s afternoon lesson anyway.
Lesson 5
After returning from my trip to Germany, I now need to catch up with the rest of the group, so I will be coming to some extra lunch time sessions in order to do this. I now have all my pieces, but today with my final plan in place, I set about working to cut down the big piece which was previously broken. With this in hand, I also applied 1 coat of sanding sealer to all my other pieces after sanding them down thoroughly. This will improve the finish and coat of my spray paint in the long run, and after examining samples, I can tell that is most certainly worth it.
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