6th lesson of design futures

In DF today we finally made it  into the workshop and started on our clocks. Mr Andrews cut out my clock design  on saw machine which was really cool because it made a really pitchy sound that hurt your ears. Once he cut out my clock we had to sand the edges with sand paper. The sand paper is actually a piece of paper with special material on one side used for sanding timber. We had to do this to make the timber soft and smooth on the edges. Later on in lessons we will be using a vacuum former which is the machine used to melt plastic and to go over our design (cover it). The process is first you have melt the plastic by pushing a button and leave for about 3 mins, then once thats done you just place your clock on the surface push the lid down and you need to pump the pump so that the plastic moulds onto your design. Some examples of made things by the vacuum former are:

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Example 3:

This is a vacuum former