Bump in the Road

For the last 4 weeks my group in IED has been working on our final furniture project. The brief was to build a piece of functional furniture using an allotted amount of oak, birch plywood, and MDF. After designing our piece, we are now in the workshop building it. Everything had been going smoothly until we realized we had glued a piece together backwards. In our piece we have sections that mirror eachother composed of a side A and a side B. Our mistake was making three side A's and only one side B. Thankfully, we were able to cut apart the pieces glued wrong and only loose two pieces of ply. After a day of working with the new pieces, we are almost caught back up to where we would have been at the end of Monday. After being really frustrated, and jokingly trying to convince ourselves we are better for making the mistake, we realized it's really true. It's not nesessariliy that the physical mistake taught us anything more than that we need to take our time and double check marks before gluing; but in the process of trying to problem solve, we became more familair with the materials, were able to use other tools, and prioritize materials to loose a minimal amount of wood. We also realized that making more detailed mockettes would have helped us see the side A and side B more clearly, and then be more aware of the differences. Overall, it has been a great experience not just stopping a design at the 2D and 3D sketches and drawings, but having to personally see the design out and exectute its building in full scale.