The target was to do a undertaking that did not include my iMac (I guess right up until appropriate now..): develop a chair! This is a classic Chinese / Japanese design, or as at least as shut as I could get by finding out the one I now have, and consulting with a colleague who made one numerous several years back in China (thanks Zhong-Min!). Fig. 1 is the last final result (as well as Veronica the cat) and Fig. 2 is my inital idea (argh a lot more iMac). This was my very first woodworking job. I made use of scrap pine boards, which felt like a lot less pressure. I’ll try awesome hardwoods upcoming time.
I experienced 3 principles:
1. No electricity resources.
2. No nails or glue.
3. No sandpaper or paint.
The notion driving Rule #1 was to commit some ‘quality time’ with the wood, using only hand equipment, many of them Japanese. This intended paying out _a great deal_ high quality time discovering how to sharpen the blades! But boy did they close up sharp…
The thought guiding Rule #2 was to learn how to make mortise and tenon joints. I finished up building twelve pegged, blind (i.e. ‘stub’ or ‘stopped’) tenon joints. The trick below was that every single joint was at a 97 degree 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 both of those the x and y instructions (Fig. 4). In doing the latter I screwed up some angles, and therefore experienced to violate Rule #2. A kind of chain response of undesirable angles necessitated a transforming of all 12 joints, so that they no for a longer period in shape properly and required some wood glue. The good thing is, building the 1/8″ hardwood pegs was enjoyable and profitable!
Rule #3 was intended to go away the wooden surface area experience ‘like wood’. I go through a fantastic furniture artisan e book from the SF Library (cannot don’t forget the title) that advocated the use of a scraper to take off slim, single shavings from the floor, leaving a top-quality finish to sandpaper, which produces hundreds of miniature cuts. Really neat. A mix of blue and eco-friendly stains ended up fairly vivid.
Slow work…but all in all really pleasurable!
The resources (Fig. 5)…Japanese and Western mortise gauges. Gimlets for hand-drilling holes. Japanese noticed, chisel, and mortise chisel. Drawknife for shaping the curved seat. Arkansas stone and Japanese water stone for sharpening. Scraper. Mallet. Blend sq.. Outdated aircraft that failed to work so great. Band clamp.
Device resources and information:
Alameda Antique Faire
Japan Woodworker (Alameda)
Hida Tool (Berkeley)
Cliff’s Selection (San Francisco)
Books and Bookshelves [stains and inspiration] (San Francisco)
Robert Larson Hand Instruments (San Francisco)
“Japanese Woodworking Tools” by Toshio Odate
“Hand Equipment” and “Planes and Chisels” from the “Fine Woodworking on…” Series
“Woodworking” by Jackson, Day, and Jennings
“Residence Setting up AND WOODWORKING IN COLONIAL The usa” by C KEITH WILBUR
Posted by snake oil on 2009-12-15 09:34:36
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