Meeting 2: starting construction

May 11, 2013

We finally started construction.

Step1:
We got the wood  measured and marked the wood where it needed to be cut.

note: the red lines are where the wood was cut.

Step 2:
we used the saw to cut the wood along the lines.

Step 3:
we took the four pieces that make up the base, drilled and screwed them together to make a rectangular base.

Step 4:
we sawed the dowel into a large piece and a smaller piece.
(I don't have a picture of sawing the dowel, but I do have one where I'm sanding it down.)

Step 5:
we drilled hole in the wood where the large dowel would go through, and we nearly burned our fingers doing it.

Step 6:
we secured the stands for the fulcrum using brackets.

Step 7:
we drilled and screwed in the supports, attaching them to the mid-stand and the base.

And with that, we finished the frame.