Week 7 Group A Lab Data: Woodworking Part 2

As we have all remarked in our lab journals, we spent the week seven lab inside woodworking rather than firing the loom weights due to poor weather. We refined the pieces of our loom (smoothing beams, chiseling) and fashioned several new heddles. In all, we have now spent about eight hours working on the loom…

Woodworking Lab (pt. 2): Group B Data

Group B: Madeline, Becca, Jacob, Sally We were supposed to be firing for this week’s lab, but due to inclement weather we instead worked in the archaeology lab to finish up some of the wood working and refining that we didn’t get to last week. We were set up in three general stations: using a…

Group C Woodworking Data

Introduction/Cutting We began by carrying logs to the Old Tennis Court, watching Sam select logs for our uprights and helping him begin the process of sawing. Process Tools Times Observations Selection Eyes 1:17-1:19 Logs for uprights were much thicker than expected, with large forks at the top. One was longer than the other. Measurement Another…