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fandomhigh2016-09-27 12:32 am
vdistinctive) wrote in fandomhigh2016-09-27 12:32 am
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Shop, Tuesday, period 3
The classroom today looked like Eliot had managed to accidentally splice together the last three weeks of class into one.
Which, other than the "accidentally", was what had actually happened. With more than a few irritated phone calls to his boyfriend when the junkyard tried to exist in the same literal space with the workshop area.
"Right." Eliot clapped his hands at the top of class. "Not gonna spend a lot of time lecturin' today. I thought y'all might enjoy a chance to flex your creativity with the skills you've picked up so far. Your assignment for the day is to make a spice rack. That's a container-slash-organization system for cooking spices. You want to make something that can contain dried, powdered plants in a way that makes them easy to locate and measure or shake into food. That's it, that's all the guidance I'm givin' ya. You can work in wood or metal, or you can scavenge parts in the junkyard or off our cars from last week. I've got some empty spice bottles up here in case you want to get a sense of scale; if you want to go with a classic shelf construction, ain't nothin' wrong with that. But you'll wanna make it pretty in that case if you want anything more'n a C. You want to try out anything we haven't practiced yet, like using a lathe or casting metal, let me know. If you can show me a design I think is gonna work, I might be talked into callin' the equipment up."
He'd even probably be able to do so without breaking anything. On the third try, at the very least.
"So sketch your idea, find your materials, and let's get to work."
Which, other than the "accidentally", was what had actually happened. With more than a few irritated phone calls to his boyfriend when the junkyard tried to exist in the same literal space with the workshop area.
"Right." Eliot clapped his hands at the top of class. "Not gonna spend a lot of time lecturin' today. I thought y'all might enjoy a chance to flex your creativity with the skills you've picked up so far. Your assignment for the day is to make a spice rack. That's a container-slash-organization system for cooking spices. You want to make something that can contain dried, powdered plants in a way that makes them easy to locate and measure or shake into food. That's it, that's all the guidance I'm givin' ya. You can work in wood or metal, or you can scavenge parts in the junkyard or off our cars from last week. I've got some empty spice bottles up here in case you want to get a sense of scale; if you want to go with a classic shelf construction, ain't nothin' wrong with that. But you'll wanna make it pretty in that case if you want anything more'n a C. You want to try out anything we haven't practiced yet, like using a lathe or casting metal, let me know. If you can show me a design I think is gonna work, I might be talked into callin' the equipment up."
He'd even probably be able to do so without breaking anything. On the third try, at the very least.
"So sketch your idea, find your materials, and let's get to work."
Make a spice rack
Re: Make a spice rack
That part was easy, though -- she could program something that basic in her sleep. Actually designing the spice rack took a little more work, and in the end she came up with a slightly curved, three-shelved design made of metal and plexiglass scrounged up in the junkyard. (And, all right, a few mechanical components she'd fabricated from omni-gel.)
The end effect was similar to a fancy vending machine, but in miniature, and without having to pay for the spices. Well, a vending machine that you could just ask for what you wanted, rather than squint at the tiny labels and hope you punched the right one in on the keypad.
Re: Make a spice rack
She salvaged the chain, latch, and hinge off stuff in the junkyard, and she built the box and lid out of scrap bits from the woodshop that normally wouldn't be much good to anyone else.
She sanded it down nice and neat, and while it needed either a stain or paint, she was pretty dang proud of what she'd managed to whip up in a short amount of time.
Re: Make a spice rack