Intro to Hand and Power Tool Safety Course CMCC: Initial Skills Projects Week 1

Starting on the 2nd of September, I began my fall semester courses at Central Maine Community College in Auburn, ME. My courses are fulfilling my degree in Building and Construction Technology which I am intending to complete the spring of 2016. Beginning this semester I am enrolled in a course that familiarizes me with the safety of using power tools and also hand tools. That course is Intro to Hand and Power Tool Safety, during that course we had to construct a sawhorse using specific instructions as well as a table saw push stick. Additionally we also did a hand-saw and hole drilling test to see if we could be accurate using a hand saw on a 45 degree angle and drilling straight through a board and coming out on our grid point on the opposite side of the board! Check it out.  

 For the push stick we had to trace a template over a 1"-3"-1' long piece of wood and then use the band saw in the photo to make the relief cuts. Then cut out the stick outline, which we then sanded to a soft touch.

<------starter holes

<--------- Where I came out the other side