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2nd June 2014, 08:27 PM #61Senior Member
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Looking awesome Derek...really great stuff... Chris i think would be very impressed.
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2nd June 2014, 09:40 PM #62Retired
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Xyoc, I'm really impressed with your work. The quality and accuracy is remarkable.
I asolutely love the Japanese way of doing things.
A few questions if I may?
- what timber are you using?
- where do you acquire your tools?
- is it taking you a long time on each project? It's hard to gauge.
Thanks for the link to the blog, I'll definitely grab those lessons.
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3rd June 2014, 11:00 PM #63Senior Member
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Sinjin and Evanism,
I appreciate the kind words - it speaks volumes for your patience if you have followed along this far!
To answer your questions:
The timber is plain, humble old Radiata pine, though I will go through a decent pile to get clean, straight grained timber. It's quite soft though, which makes it quite manageable to work with hand tools, but dents and blemishes very easy. In fact the components in this project are starting to look beaten up in parts.
Most of my tools are western (all of the planes are) but the few Japanese tools I have, I purchased from So Yamashita at Japan-Tool.com. A great fella but hard to get hold of.
Each project is taking a long time because I do this in my spare time, after work and family. There's also procrastination and inefficiency which takes its toll.... The projects would take a more reasonable time period if all the actual work was placed in close sequence. I hand dimension my stock at this stage which also adds time (though it's not as bad as most people might think).
Moving on...
It was time to bring the mating parts together:
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As cut, there was a fair bit of friction and a bit of adjustment was needed before the RHS parts came together:
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On this first side, if I had screwed it up I would have had the option of re-cutting the male half of the joint. Once one side is fitted however, where the other male half needs to be on the stick is fixed in space!
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7th June 2014, 11:45 PM #64Senior Member
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Time for the other side.
Keta ready to receive:
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The theoretical length for the brace could be found from the plan view drawings. This was no time for theory! I aligned the brace as accurately as possible with the completed right side, and marked the actual length on the left side where the stick intersected the RH face of the left side Keta.
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No photos of the process but the completed joint came out thus:
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The LHS is not quite as nicely executed as the RHS but overall I'm happy.
Still more work to do...
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11th July 2014, 11:08 PM #65Senior Member
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Work continues slowly.
I have added the support post that sits atop the bracing piece and supports the hip rafter:
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Before the Hip can sit atop this construction, the hip needs a mortice to receive the post tenon. The tenon at this stage is a square cross section but in order to reduce the amount of material removed from the hip, it is thinned down to a diamond shape thus:
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The completed mortice viewed from the
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The following shows the tenon itself thinned down (there's two because as you'll see shortly, the original, made some time back, was too short):
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Test fitting to come.
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