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.