Friday, August 15, 2008

Tother way

Not swamped with translation work after all, so I got on and started on the floating tenon joints. I normally just cut tenons where needed, but there were several pieces of timber that were too short to be used without employing the floating tenon technique. This just means cutting mortices in both pieces to be joined and sticking an insert of the same kind of timber into the slots. The shortness of the timber was due to having longer planks that were warped to such an extent that they had to be cut in half to get a useful flat thickness of plank out of them.
The typical jumble in the shop rather enhanced by my letting the panorama software run its course in stitching the pictures together without adjustment.