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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."
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