Shop Class

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Sam was standing in the front of the room, her hands in the pockets of her jeans. "Um, hey, guys. So, Mac isn't back yet." She shrugged. "So, you're stuck with me for at least one more class. So sorry, please send any complaints to the administration."

She adjusted a few dials on the equipment, setting up the familiar junkyard. "So, today's project--use the materials you find here to make something that will make it easier for you to study for finals, or that you will give someone else to make it easier for them to study."

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Re: Project

[soldtoarmenians]

Mostly the things that help Xander study better are caffeine, twinkies, and Willow, and he doubts he could build any of those things with what he might find in the Danger Shop. Well, maybe he could build a robot Willow, but it would suck, because a) not exactly his specialty, shop-wise, b) robots suck, especially any that come out of this room, and c) see b, because it can't be repeated enough.

But when in doubt, build something for somebody else - he has a roomie who really deserves more than just a t-shirt for her birthday, after all.

Xander pokes through the available scrap, and comes out with two relatively matching, if somewhat bentinated, magazine racks. A pair of pliers and some slightly achey -- Mole Men, yo -- elbow-grease later, most of the bendy problem is taken care of.

There's always wood, and that'll work for the main part of what he's building, though the hinge is tricky and is probably a little more functional than pretty by the time he's got the pieces cut and one set inside the other. It'll do, though.

Attaching the magazine racks on either side of the flat wooden piece, as both legs and, well, magazine racks, or snack-holders, or whatever somebody might want to drop inside them, completes the project, except for spray-painting the whole thing white and waiting around for it to dry.

It kinda looks like this, only a whole lot more clumsy amateur uh... rustic. Yeah.