vendredi, avril 01, 2011 I'm planning my church's Maundy Thursday service, and I've been thinking of making a cross for the service for the longest time. I did it last night, and here are the pictures.Raw materials: 1. 2x wooden balsa blocks ($2 from Daiso) 2. 1x MDF board ($2 from Daiso) 3. handsaw ($1.90 from chapalang shop in AMK central) 4. electric screwdriver (in toolkit) Time taken: 1.5 hrs  Took out everything and laid it on the table  I was making a 2:3 ratio cross, so had to do the math... with a little help from Nokia calculator  Drew in the lines for the horizontal bar to be cut  Taking action (over the dustbin to catch the sawdust)  Fail lah, cannot match!  The final product - okay lah, not TOOOOO bad, still quite even  This is the machine-cut side  Now for the cross-bar: both the wood blocks need to be cut 50% through so that it'll fit together neatly  After some failed attempts at trying to cut it, I decided to abuse my electric screwdriver's drill function to cut "perforations"  It seemed to work at first...  ...but still cannot.  Time for the big guns - I went searching for my wood carving set which last saw light in 2004...  In the end I decided to use my screwdriver drill...abused it so badly that it broke off in protest.  After a couple more hard saws, success!  The whole chunk of block came off  But it was still kind of not smooth, so had to saw some more  this is how it looks like, one piece 50% sawn through  Not too badly done; a bit uneven, but this is an amateur job. My abused electric screwdriver is in the background.  Here's the attempt on the 2nd piece of wood (the longer vertical part of the cross)  After many "triangles" were cut off, it's always the horizontal edging is the hardest to smoothen  But hey! It fits together pretty well...  A bit of gap here and there, but not bad. Tonight I'll do the other bit with the MDF to secure the cross to the board, so that it can stand.
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