Mr. Hugus’ Shop Blog

Welcome back.  It has been tough finding time to ramble on about the woodshop.  It has come to my attention that I have made some more spelling errors, this time in relation to person’s names.  I have made corrections to the blog posting and I will try to be more correct in the future. 

Onward and upward!

Woods I:  More than half of the clocks are done and people are moving on to their third projects.

Woods II, III, IV:  We are making good progress on our projects.

Welcome back to the woodshop.  I took Friday off to have a Stress Test.  I passed!  I have stress. 

 INTERIM REPORTS go out today.

All Woods Classes:  All current projects must be paid-in-full by May 9th.  All new projects being started from this point forward must be paid for in advance of receiving materials.

Mechanical Drawing: Dwg. 49 Offset Sections.

Welcome to Wild Wednesday! 

Interim reports go out next Monday, April 28th.  Please have all make-up work submitted by the end of the day on Thursday.  Work submitted after that point will not be accepted for a grade.  Plan accordingly.

Woods I:  We are starting to get some clocks completed already!  If you are at the point where you are putting finish coats on your clock you should be looking into your next project.

Woods II, III, IV:  We have been making reasonable progress on our larger, more substantial projects.

Mechanical Drawing: 61 Conventional Practices

PROJECT OF THE WEEK

Welcome to Saturday School! (so to speak)

Woods I,II,III&IV:  Project work today.  For those who showed up, it was a great opportunity to get lots of work done. 

Mechanical Drawing:  make-up day for those who came to school today.  Fine tuning things before interims.

Fabulous Friday!

Mechanical Drawing:  58 Broken-out Sections.

I am looking forward to seeing all of you on Saturday.

What a wonderful day it is outside today!  I love weather like this.  Great day for a baseball game.  Great day for woodworking!

Woods I:  Turn in Router Worksheet,  Router Quiz today!

Mechanical Drawing: 57 Offset sections.

Welcome to Wednesday (Spelled it right this time)!

Woods I: Router discussion and worksheet today.  !!! QUIZ !!! tomorrow.

Woods II, III & IV:  Continued progress on projects. 

Mechanical Drawing: Half Sections Drawing 56

I spent a good bit of my plan period today grading projects.  I graded a number of cutting boards and some hand tool projects.  I also graded a nice trophy shelf made by Mark Coleman and a shelf made by Ben Baker.  If I can get a few photos I may get one of these to be the Project of the Week soon.

Woods I:  Chapter 18 TYK “Routers” is due today at the end of the period.  Tomorrow we will be discussing the Router and then have the quiz on Thursday.

Woods II, III, IV:  Today we are doing project work.

Sports: Too bad to hear that the boys’ baseball team lost to Circleville yesterday.  Congrats to the girls on their victory!

Logan Elm 8th grade boys play against Circleville 8th grade tonight at Barthelmas Park diamond 4 at 5:00 pm.  (My son, Joseph, plays for the Tigers.)  Come out and watch a good game.

Welcome back to the LEHS Woodshop Blog.  I hope you are as excited as I am about teaching 6 days a week for the first time in 19 years.  Don’t get me wrong.  I don’t want to give up my Saturdays all the time.

Woods I: Chapter 18 TYK “Routers”  Q & A due tomorrow.  Most of the hand tool projects are done and gone.  We have been cutting out clock patterns on the bandsaw and drilling holes for the clock motors in the back of the clock using the drill press.

Woods II: We are continuing to work on our projects.  I have seen some nice work on chess boards by two or three students and some nice cutting boards and clip boards have gone home lately.  Jon Ayers is currently making 5 cutting boards and a clip board.

Woods III & IV:  We are working on some nice patio furniture, end tables and other fine projects.

Mechanical Drawing: We have moved on to Sections.  Today’s drawing: 54 Full Sections.

Welcome back to the woodshop!  We have been very busy the past 9 days.  I have been grading many hand tool projects.  Most of them are done and out the door.

Woods I:  Yesterday we discussed the Drill Press and today we took the Drill Press Quiz.

Woods II: This week we did the Tablesaw Blade Change Activity.  This activity is due by the end of the day tomorrow.

Woods II & IV: We are continuing to work on our more extensive projects. 

I have been working on making some Eastern Blue Bird Boxes for my church’s nature preserve.  I will try to provide a photo.  Maybe they will be the project of the week.

Mechanical Drawing: today we started the last of our 2-pt perspective drawings: Tool Guide.  Next we will be moving into Development Views.

 Project of the Week

These Eastern Blue Bird boxes were made by Mr. Hugus in Woods XIX.  They were made from Western Red Cedar.  I hope the birds enjoy them.