Shade house/Pergola

**Sawdust Maker** · 1st October 2014, 09:51 AM

nice noisy machine

but I would have thought you'd use a brace and bit and a chisel?

especually in old Jarrah!

**pmcgee** · 3rd October 2014, 10:11 PM

Yup ... smaller tenon will be better ... :/

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**pmcgee** · 6th October 2014, 08:10 AM

Well ... a bit of a speed-hump ... I cain't let go my timber.

Let's start with the tenon ... happy with it straight from sawing ...

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except for the bad habit ... by eye ... (both sides)

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No drama, as I had marked it out a bit oversize.

I thought the light colour of the timber was a bit different, but didn't think much more about it.

We set it up in place to get the length for the stretcher. It was one of the 'rafters' that ran from house to fence, and over time they have a bit of a curve to them ...

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So sunday I'd trimmed it off and marked the top straight ... and started straightening it up with the jointer when ... I realised what I was holding.

I have a bit of a fascination with an unknown timber.
I started with a piece from somewhere ... maybe from the house knocked down next door.
It is quite dense 750g in 180mm x 80mm x 48mm = 0.0007m³= 1085 kg/m³Then I found the same used as stub-rafters in 60s/70s retirement homes that were demolished ...
and now this piece. I like this stuff ... I'm keeping it ...

(photos to follow)

**pmcgee** · 6th October 2014, 09:50 AM

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It is like a blonde jarrah. Planed smooth it is like marble ... takes a sharp edge to make an impression on it.
It makes me think of Marri ... but I don't know if it gets this 'solid' ?

The third picture shows the colour properly.

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**pmcgee** · 8th October 2014, 05:13 AM

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." -Thomas Edison

heh heh heh

**artme** · 8th October 2014, 08:24 PM

If that came from this side of the continent I would say Blackbutt.

**pmcgee** · 17th January 2015, 07:19 PM

Ok, so granted this job ground to a halt.

Things came up, and it was always a toss-up between this job that needed doing at the side of the house vs a not entirely dissimilar job needed at the front of the house. And that has actually progressed and will be finished!

The front-of-house materials came from one of those rare side-of-the-road gifts ... a pulled-down and unwanted jarrah/hardwood structure in 4m x 50mm x 125mm beams ... that hasn't been circular-sawed into 1m lengths for the rubbish collection.

**Sawdust Maker** · 17th January 2015, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by pmcgee

... a pulled-down and unwanted jarrah/hardwood structure in 4m x 50mm x 125mm beams ... that hasn't been circular-sawed into 1m lengths for the rubbish collection.

oh heaven
I'm weak at the knees

**pmcgee** · 17th January 2015, 07:43 PM

The collection has been spread around the front yard a bit at this stage, but ...

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I didn't want to just butt-joint and coach-bolt everything.

I had already tried a scarf-joint one and a half times in previous tentative attempts at getting this underway ...
it did go a bit better this time. Nowhere near perfect, but enough to shut up and plow on.

Everything in the framework has been cut by rip handsaw ... bought to be a user from MM in the US.

The layout and first cut ...

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**pmcgee** · 17th January 2015, 08:06 PM

It took a lot of concentration cutting these out ... alternating sides and trying to be accurate.

There have been plenty of mistakes ... the first big face-palmer here ...

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He thinks to himself ... the first beam which attaches to the brick wall ... just trim that back a bit to some better wood.

Result ... scarf joint doesn't sit centred on the post. Fuming.

It's totally by accident that the end of the beam lines up with the edge of the post ... providing a potentially plausible "out" regarding what I was trying to achieve.

Second smaller face-palm ... in matching up the two beams I determined the second beam needed a few mm off the front of the joint. Until I checked for everything level ... nope ... $#@#$ ... can I have those mm's back please?

**pmcgee** · 17th January 2015, 08:13 PM

Scarf joints ... not even proper ones ... what are you? an idiot?

Nature is cruel sometimes ...

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**pmcgee** · 17th January 2015, 08:33 PM

The posts had previously carried boards 9" x 2" x 3m (I'm standing on them above)

I figured fill-in and re-cut. Actually the fill-ins were better wood, so the original wood got the rebate.

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