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| RossJarvis:
Now, then youngsters, I popped downstairs to get on with the wotsit, but noticed we’d got more damp in the “workshop”; I think it’s also spreading near the “climate controlled” storeroom; Thought I’d have to look into that before carrying on, but decided to turn the heater on instead, to see if that’ll dry it out. In the meantime, I’ll just “develop” some more photos to show you where I’d got to. I’m running ahead on the work now and I’ll forget where I am if I’m going to keep you lot up to date! |
| RossJarvis:
Hello again chums, I’ve just got the photos off the dryer, so I can show you a bit more progress. I seem to remember that I’d “fitted” the holes (sorry, mortices) to the tenons. The next step was fitting the tenons to the h..mortices. Due to variations in cack-handedness, some of the tenons needed a minor tap with a hitting-stick, some were push fits and a couple had associated “priest holes” and plopped in with no help at all. I’ll have to knock up a bit of “wooden shim” to cover those up before the “roundheads” pop round to check. Remember, as I’m trying to fit each joint separately, this is a bit time consuming, but I’m learning a lot. I started this job Monday, it’s Saturday now and the total time of wood-bashing has been less than an hour (possibly not more than 10 minutes!). Hopefully the back frame will go together a lot quicker. First off, offer the tenon up to the mortice and simply insert (as the chippie said to the Bishop☺). Making sure that the timbers are level and square. As I’ve made the tenons long (“It’s easier to take the wood off with a saw than put it back on, so err on the side of caution” I seem to remember being told at night school!), they don’t go all the way and I’ve marked the tenon where it meets the face of the other timber; What I’m trying to do here is make the tenon fit the hole as fully as possible (“ooh-er missus I don’t know if I’ll be able to achieve that” says Justin Welby, Grief, I just hope he isn’t watching!). As the joint is going to be pegged, I want as much “end-grain” on the tenon as I can get, so that it doesn’t get “torn out”. Nextly I transferred the marked line down a bit to give me a line to cut the end off. I’m using a rule for this, but you don’t need anything so modern, a bit of stick would do. What I did was hold the rule so that one end was on the marked line, I then marked where this met the end of the tenon; I’m using some “milling engineer’s adhesive setting shim” here. (If any “millers’ are watching, I’m using the stuff in the green packets, a true professional uses the blue packets!). Then I just slide the rule down to where it touches the “shoulder” of the tenon and mark where the “shim” has got to; I did this both ends of the line, and ruled across between the marks (I think I had a good reason for this at the time but I'm not sure if I got it right now). I could have squared across, but then I’d have to mark from the bit of the line closest to the tenon shoulder Then I marked where the waste was and cut the end off the tenon. REMEMBER, CUT ACROSS THE LINE CLOSEST TO THE END OF THE TENON, NOT THE LINE YOU DREW FIRST! Don’t ask me how I know this! |
| RossJarvis:
Haunched Tenon: For the end of the “beam” I was going to put one of these in the top of the post, so that it was secure and you wouldn’t see much “choppery-pokery”. I’ve since had a look in me books and all the pictures of these look different to mine! Hey-ho, with any luck no-one’s going to be poking around in there to see (and if they are I’m gonna have to tell Father O’Reilly to scarper sharpish first!). I offered the tenon up to the mortice. I’d left this the full width of the timber, as I can’t remember where I’ve left me glue! Then I marked the width of the h…mortice onto the end of the tenon, remembering to hatch the bit I didn’t want,; Next I cut the spare bit off the tenon and I shaved the inside of the mortice as close as any barber round our way(something for the weekend sir?). The picture shows another mortice, these ones aren’t so long remember; I could now wiggle the bit of the tenon to see if it would fit in the hole. It was a bit too long/wide? So I shaved a smidge off with the big Swede (I call him that because he’s bigger than the other chisel…….and he’s from Sweden. (Great people the Swede’s, but Cross & Blackwell call them Rutabagans?); Nextly, I bunged the wood in the hole, marked a line, chopped the end off and hey Presto, job done (speaking of which, I’ve not seen a Presto for ages, probably gone the same way as Lyon’s cornerhouse!). I could now stick the whole thing together to see where I’d gone wrong so far; Now then, some of you lot weren’t watching properly when I made my lap-joint (“pay to leave? What do you mean I’ve got to pay to leave? This is the oddest pub I’ve ever been in, and some of those girls over there are going to catch their death of cold!”), were you? One of you at least could have told me I’d cut a hole in the wrong side of the bottom beam couldn’t you? I was b****y chuffed with that joint too. Never mind, they say pride always precedes a fall, shoulda been paying attention me’self I suppose. Anyway, I’m still reasonably pleased with all the joints and there’ll be some bodging I can do to save the day with the bottom beam; Think I’ll tell Toni it’ll look nice with a lick of paint on, it’s only knotty old carcassing after all, so at the end of the day it’s not supposed to be seen anyway. Ooh it looks like the heater’s dried out the workshop so I can go and start sorting out me braces. “about time too” says the beloved “you’ve been wandering around all week with your trousies round your knees, with you’re a*** hanging out and your Jockey shorts on display, you look like a flippin teenager you do!” TTFN See you later. |
| mosey:
Ross, I recently retired from architectural practise after 50 years and now paint watercolors full-time when not in the shop. I'll be painting in Oxford in 2 weeks. See you there. Also did some cabinet-making. Mosey |
| DaveH:
Hi Ross, Still here, looking and learning although most of it is well beyond my capabilities :scratch: My prowess to wood work is the "Two S's" Saw it, Screw it and that's about it :) :beer: DaveH |
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