Build Thread

[Sheets]

Just dropping a line to say I'm enjoying this thread very much. Thanks, Steve!

Thanks. Its basically to have something here to read about since its been so quiet. Its nice to know somebody besides me visits regularly.

[Sheets]

So what do you call the person using the baka-bo? If you’re hoisting something with it, you might be baka-bo derrick. If you’re just holding it idly, you might be baka-bo diddley. If you marked it wrong and used it, you might be baka-bone head.

So what did I do wrong? Well two days ago when I was so diligently marking out my half-laps at 7.83 mm, somewhere before the last joint, I started to mark 7.38 mm. Not enough of an error when I was squinting in the sunlight to notice and I didn’t even notice until today (after cutting the joints yesterday). Oh well. Tilt - reset. Put in another quarter. Its only four strips of wood - four rip cuts, a bunch of planing, re-mark the other side of that baka-bo, re-clamp, re-saw, re, re, re, etc. Maybe I’ll just re-post that entry and pretend it didn’t happen.

Seriously, its not a big deal. At least I discovered it before having cut all the vertical kumiko as well. That would have hurt. Re-doing the work will be for tomorrow.

Today, I needed to finish some details on four of the horizontal frame parts (previously cut). I’ve decided to have these four pieces (ones I made a little rebate in to place the glass) morticed into the door frame itself. If I ever have to repair some glass, I can still do it without having to remove these pieces (unless they get broken too - but I hope not). Anyway, because the upper pane of glass needs to be supported, its better to have the bottom of the frame connected to the door by more than just brads. I’ve arranged the center two horizontal frame pieces so that the one above (supporting the upper glass pane) rests on the one below (which forms the top horizontal frame for the lower pane) if that makes sense. The lower glass piece will have its weight supported by the actual door even though it sits on a frame piece too. I don’t really have a good picture of the arrangement yet. Anyway, I marked the two inner stiles for the mortices.

Steve

[yojimbo]

You failed to mention your baka-bo jeste.

Sorry.

Really. Sorry.

[Sheets]

You failed to mention your baka-bo jeste.

Sorry.

Really. Sorry.

Thank you, baka-bo peep

[yojimbo]

::shakes fist in impotent fury::

[Sheets]

ala baka-bo jutsu?

Anyway, lest we descend (further) into the well of silliness. What I should have done was use a short baka-bo with only the spacing for three joints on it (double checked for correctness) and then moved it along the length of my pieces until all the joints were marked. That's really how it should be done to prevent the very mistake I made. Yea, that's it - I did it on purpose to illustrate the problem. Honest

p.s., re: baka-bo jeste - that was rather well done

[yojimbo]

Thank you, sir. And how clever of you to include a "deliberate" mistake (sure, I buy that) in your blog so as to better teach us heathens.

Overall, though, seems like a long way 'round to plea for acceptance of the whole "size doesn't matter" debate.

[Sheets]

Well I'll have to confess a preference for "little" mistakes as opposed to big ones.

[Sheets]

Well I figure if I have to suffer and re-do some of my work, you all should suffer too and have to re-read about it.

So I marked some wood to rip the pieces to replace those I miss-marked and have to discard. I ran into a sap pocket on the first cut and the saw took off sideways almost as soon as the teeth bit into it. The "wow" in the kerf was into the waste side, so I pressed on and finished that cut. Next cut was to remove a piece I did want to keep, but the same thing happened because the pocket extended into it as well. This time the kerf was into the adjacent piece (also meant to be a keeper) so that ruined both of them. I usually leave a fairly generous allowance for the kerf to wander (which it usually does somewhere along the way), but this was too much. In any case, the sappy wood would cause problems finishing later.

I did have enough from this board to cut what I needed without sap or large knots and the cutting went very well after that. The two thick slices were re-sawn again to make the four pieces I need. The pics show (1st and 2nd) the two good parts (that become four) along with the sappy spots on the bad parts (a close-up of the bad kerf) and then (I'm amazed- 3rd, 4th and 5th) some arrow straight ripping

[yojimbo]

Looks like a cross-cut you're using. Is it?

[Sheets]

Not cross cut. The same "Z" saw rip blade as pictured in "If Only I Had A Plan" -Mar 11 post ('course that WAS last week).

[yojimbo]

D'oh!

Who remembers back that far (or that we're on page 2 of a blog...)?

Got a link for that? Never heard of 'em. (Which I do remember thinking when I read that post, lo, these many days ago...)

[Sheets]

D'oh!

Who remembers back that far (or that we're on page 2 of a blog...)?

Got a link for that? Never heard of 'em. (Which I do remember thinking when I read that post, lo, these many days ago...)

I've got more links than a 100 fathom anchor cable (so long as I use Google)

Here you go (3rd from the top. Translation courtesy of Babel Fish):
[zetsutoso] P.2

I got mine from Tashiro's in Seattle (mail order, ca. 1993?) but a search turned up:
TASHIRO HARDWARE, LLC since 1885 P.O. Box 3409 - Seattle, WA 98114 -# [email protected] tel: (206) 328-7641 - fax: (206) 328-1256 ######## Prices and specifications subject to change without notice. enhanced Z-saws

Stu (Tools From Japan) could probably get them too.

[NCArcher]

I'm also watching this thread with interest so keep 'em coming.

[Sheets]

First, welcome to any new watchers/readers (NCArcher). Now the pressure's on.

I did a few things today. Finished planing my replacement frame parts to size. But before I re-marked them with the baka-bo, I remembered that my knife needed sharpening, so I did that. I don't know about you, but I love a shiny and sharp tool.

I don't usually work at my dining room table, but the ocean breeze air-conditioner was on again (nearly froze my fingers doing the sharpening outside), so I enjoyed the sun from inside while I took my freshly sharpened knife and performed a proper baka-bo marking operation. Anyway, same basic idea as before, but I cut the old baka-bo short (keeping the correct markings) and then just moved it until all the joints were marked.

Later in the shop (garage), I finished the small mortices in the short stiles I needed for the horizontal glass/kumiko frame parts, and then posed them as they will be in the door. You can imagine a pane of glass, a layer of kumiko on either side, and then the frame notched to hold the kumiko. I posed the arrangement using the miss-cut vertical pieces as I've yet to cut the joints in the new ones. Those pieces not morticed into the door I'll attach with brads or screws. Its a door. Honest.

Thanks for reading.