week 7

This week we set out to finish the stool, it has been a couple of weeks since I have seen AL because of scheduling conflicts. The stool is slowly but surely coming together as i weld each individual piece together and then have to make sure it will all fit together before I move on to the next piece. So far so good as we have only had to fix about two or three mistakes on both of our parts. one of the biggest challenges is being able to make something you visualize a reality. It is one thing to make a drawing but it is a completely different thing to make it real, sometimes thing just don't work the way you think they are supposed too. After all my work and all of Al's help i finally completed my stool and it looks pretty good. It is a little tall but other than that i am completely satisfied with it. Now the only thing left for me to do is take it home and make a seat for it. i am extremely happy with welding and would strongly pursue it as a career after a graduate from college.

week 6

This week me and my Mentor Al began the fabrication project of creating a stool. this was a new process for both of us as we had never made a stool before, so we had to figure out each step as we went. The first process in making the stool was the lay out, we had to figure out how tall it should be, how wide the stances of the stool was going to be, the diameter of the seat, how far up the stool to put our foot rests, and how far to put those foot rests apart. there is an overwhelming amount of work that goes into the fabrication process. This is why I decided not to go with my original idea of making a bicycle frame, because after discussing it with Al he made me realize the amount of time that would needed to be put into it was too much for the time we had left. which is okay I am perfectly fine with making a stool as I would be making a frame, as long as get to weld and fabricate it didn't matter. After we got the layout we choose a material, I thought the square tubing was cool and looked cool so I picked that. We then came up with a drawing and the dimensions for everything. We then began to form all the parts we needed for the metal around the shop. using the press break, saw, grinder, plasma torch, and other tools. and that was all the time we had for this week.