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More wood butchering from Ross, Scarf Joint

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RossJarvis:

--- Quote from: tom osselton on October 21, 2013, 01:34:14 PM ---Mine was in 08 a truck pulling a dual wheel trailer turning left, we don't see many volvo's here :doh:  luckly only took out my right side. So long term disabilities till I retire in 2019.

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Oouch, I feel for you, hope you've been able to adjust successfully.

RossJarvis:
Rain again till the afternoon, I have now read all of the internet, apart from some of the Mongolian pages and those CIA ones which are hard to find.  However, after going for a walk with the apprentice, well a bit more like going to stand under various trees, I applied sharpness to wood.  (Sharpness in terms of tools that is, not in terms of me!).  Following a demonstration and some advice about getting good straight square cuts with a pull-saw (cheers VTSteam :thumbup:), I pre-cut along the lines to guide the saw;



….started cutting and;



******, *******s, *******ing, **** :doh: :Doh: :doh: :Doh:. 

It was worserer on the other side;



****ing ******les!;



….more compound curves than on a compound-curvey thing.  At this point I was going to give up.  However, inside the old noggin a battle ensued and I decided to carry on despite it, chisel bash chisel;



….plus it came to transpire (or is that what trees do instead of sweat?), that I had subconsciously managed to mark things out, taking the cock-up into consideration and things weren’t quite as bad as I thought, so before long, Ta Dah;



…two funny shaped bits of wood.  The light was going by now, so I tidied everything away and came in to see what was for tea.  “Whatever you're b****y cooking” is the answer.

Getting a bit fed up with this sawing malarkey.  I need to get some scrap wood and do a lot of practice just on that, me-thinks.  At the moment, I’m not sure whether to blame it on the saw, the wood, the workbench or the apprentice, maybe all four!

AussieJimG:
You can't stop now, you are just starting to get the hang of it!

Jim

RossJarvis:
Thanks for the encouragement Jim :thumbup:

Finito Benito, or some such.  Yesterday I found that the “step” in the middle had to be re-cut a bit, at an angle for the wedge.  I couldn’t actually put the two halves together initially as it got in the way.  I’m not sure whether this is something I missed from the book or just messed up when marking out.  After last night’s deluge of Diluvian proportions, plus thunder and lightning (very, very frightening, ooh Galileo…….), which had left an inch of water in the tea mug, I was surprised to find a dry and sunny morning.  So out pops I, pare, pare, pare, scrape, scrape, scrape and;



….two joint parts which almost fit together and a hand planed wedge, which also fits, almost!  Starting to put them together;



Put together and wedged loosely….;





…..and here’s four bits of oak pretending to be two, along with my outdoors plane collection;



I’m sure I’ve learnt a lot more than I think, including not giving up when things all go ***s up.  One thing I have learnt is why the Japanese build their houses out of softwood and not seasoned oak!  I need more practice on the pull-saw, chisels and not rushing, but overall I’d have to say there are a number of things about it, which are positive.  One was that both parts of the joint were straight and flush to each other…….hmmm, not sure what the others are, but I’ll come back if I remember.

awemawson:
Very neat Ross - 'proper job' as they say in the west country. It must be very satisfying to had got there in the end. Those are worthy of any mantlepiece  :bow:

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