Thread: The gate

Nice job on the gate!

Bloody pity you have to paint though!

Michael
As long as you got paid....still to paint it white
Close your eyes while you paint it may ease the pain.



The customer is always right, no matter how stupid

Excuse my ignorance, but the bridle joint in the 2nd photo joining the top and bottom rail does the tenon go full width of the timber. I am still coming to grips with other than the basic joint names and how they can be used for different purposes.Nice work

Michael,
I know how you feel. I once spent more than two weeks fitting silky oak trims in a resort restaurant. There were major discrepancies between the wall framing and the windows. I had to rebate the back of the timber out to suit the varying in/out distance difference between the windows and walls. I had to counterbore and tek screw each piece and then glue in timber plugs (aligning grain) and cut them flush. When I was finished the architect and client came out to look and had the lot painted :eek: :mad:

If I'd known that to start with I could've used MDF and bogged the holes!

Mick

Originally Posted by Lawrence

Excuse my ignorance, but the bridle joint in the 2nd photo joining the top and bottom rail does the tenon go full width of the timber. I am still coming to grips with other than the basic joint names and how they can be used for different purposes.Nice work

The joint at the bottom is definitely called a bridle joint, but the one at the top as you can see, the tenon does not go right thru, for weatherproofing/aesthetic reasons and I'm not certain of its name - I thought a blind bridle is fairly descriptive tho'
Cheers
Michael