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The target was to do a job that did not include my iMac (I guess right up until ideal now..): construct a chair! This is a conventional Chinese / Japanese design and style, or as at the very least as near as I could get by studying the a single I already have, and consulting with a colleague who created a person a lot of yrs back in China (many thanks Zhong-Min!). Fig. 1 is the ultimate outcome (in addition Veronica the cat) and Fig. 2 is my inital principle (argh far more iMac). This was my first woodworking challenge. I utilized scrap pine boards, which felt like less strain. I will try out wonderful hardwoods upcoming time.

I experienced three procedures:
1. No energy resources.
2. No nails or glue.
3. No sandpaper or paint.

The strategy at the rear of Rule #1 was to expend some ‘quality time’ with the wooden, applying only hand instruments, a lot of of them Japanese. This intended shelling out _considerably_ high quality time understanding how to sharpen the blades! But boy did they end up sharp…

The notion behind Rule #2 was to master how to make mortise and tenon joints. I ended up creating twelve pegged, blind (i.e. ‘stub’ or ‘stopped’) tenon joints. The trick here was that every joint was at a 97 diploma angle. This essential some iMac-sketching and head-scratching (Fig. 3). For the 8 rail joints, I angled the mortise, and for the 4 leg-seat joints I angled the tenon, in each the x and y instructions (Fig. 4). In carrying out the latter I screwed up some angles, and for this reason experienced to violate Rule #2. A kind of chain reaction of lousy angles necessitated a transforming of all 12 joints, so that they no lengthier in shape flawlessly and essential some wood glue. The good news is, building the 1/8″ hardwood pegs was enjoyable and effective!

Rule #3 was intended to go away the wooden surface area experience ‘like wood’. I read through a excellent furnishings artisan book from the SF Library (cannot try to remember the title) that advocated the use of a scraper to just take off slim, one shavings from the floor, leaving a outstanding end to sandpaper, which results in hundreds of miniature cuts. Pretty neat. A mixture of blue and inexperienced stains ended up quite vivid.

Slow do the job…but all in all very satisfying!

The resources (Fig. 5)…Japanese and Western mortise gauges. Gimlets for hand-drilling holes. Japanese saw, chisel, and mortise chisel. Drawknife for shaping the curved seat. Arkansas stone and Japanese drinking water stone for sharpening. Scraper. Mallet. Mix sq.. Old aircraft that failed to operate so wonderful. Band clamp.

Software resources and data:
Alameda Antique Faire
Japan Woodworker (Alameda)
Hida Instrument (Berkeley)
Cliff’s Range (San Francisco)
Publications and Bookshelves [stains and inspiration] (San Francisco)
Robert Larson Hand Equipment (San Francisco)
“Japanese Woodworking Instruments” by Toshio Odate
“Hand Resources” and “Planes and Chisels” from the “Fantastic Woodworking on…” Sequence
“Woodworking” by Jackson, Day, and Jennings
“Property Creating AND WOODWORKING IN COLONIAL The united states” by C KEITH WILBUR

Posted by snake oil on 2009-12-15 09:34:40

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