24/4/12

Today my half of the class were making our oil stone boxes.We were handed 2 blocks of wood,we had to use our chizels and hammers.The Oil stone had to fit into the blocks,13mm in depth on each block,The bottom one is to be tight and the top block is to have a 1mm gap,once the insides have been chizled out,we were to plane the top on a small angle on all four sides.I spent the whole day doing this.

When using the chizels,never chizel towards yourself as you could chizel yourself in the leg.Always aim it away from yourself.I also used a hand plain to clean up the insides of the blocks.Both handles are to be held when using it as you could possibly cut yourself.

The block of wood at the start.

After I have chizled out the insides to squeeze the oil stone in.

Making sure you have sharp chizels is important,after all you want a nice clean tidy job.The sharper the better,also safer.