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8 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Well, it was all going far to well. 🤣

 

Im sure one or two will revel in my misfortune but I’m happy to share my mistakes. 
 

Somehow I got my maths badly wrong and the frame was too wide. How that happened I still don’t know. Anyway, I was faced with the choice of saving the four mortise and tenons and adding a mini-scarf Joint or cutting the tenons off and adding dowels. I went with dowels to keep things simple and keep the aesthetics. 
 

At least cutting the tenons off gave me a chance to see how accurate they where. I’m quite happy with what I had to destroy 🤣

 

As I am with getting eight 1/2 inch dowels millimetre perfect on the fly.  

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I love the way you pull success out of miss fortune Andy 🙂

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1 minute ago, trigger_andy said:

Finally got to the stage of adding the Osmo hard wax to the unit. Will dull down to a mat sheen but happy with the result so far.

 

Just need to build the lower shelf now.

 

 

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Top banana dude !

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44 minutes ago, Conor Wright said:

I feel your pain, I recently built a timber frame greenhouse and made one of the uprights back to front, didn't realise until I was putting it together. Had to go back and mill a cant down to size, plane it, mark it up (correctly!). Put a whole day on the job.

On the bright side, you made your mathematical booboo on a little home project, not a gushing oil field! 

I feel your pain!

 

My wife just shakes her head now. 🤣 She can’t understand why I’m allowed anywhere near an oil rig let alone responsible for tbe jobs I’ve had/have . 🤣I guess it’s the lack of booze. 

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45 minutes ago, Stubby said:

I love the way you pull success out of miss fortune Andy 🙂

Cheers Stubby. :) I was seriously pissed off most of the day. You’d never know there was four outta the 16 joins are now dowels, but I know and it takes the shine off of it for me. But it’s all apart of the learning process I guess? 

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2 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

Well, it was all going far to well. 🤣

 

Im sure one or two will revel in my misfortune but I’m happy to share my mistakes. 
 

Somehow I got my maths badly wrong and the frame was too wide. How that happened I still don’t know. Anyway, I was faced with the choice of saving the four mortise and tenons and adding a mini-scarf Joint or cutting the tenons off and adding dowels. I went with dowels to keep things simple and keep the aesthetics. 
 

At least cutting the tenons off gave me a chance to see how accurate they where. I’m quite happy with what I had to destroy 🤣

 

As I am with getting eight 1/2 inch dowels millimetre perfect on the fly.  

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Was probably to blame!

Ask me how I know.

P.S.

Lovely work Andy.

Despite the beer.

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On 03/07/2022 at 12:13, trigger_andy said:

Making good progress with the legs and rails. 16 mortise and tenons is slow and tedious work but also enjoyable if you break it down into shorter sessions. 

You say doing 16 mortice & tenons was tedious,, can you imagine milling, then measuring & marking out and then morticing  approx 8500 6,5ft 6x3 larch posts all with 6 mortices in them, i was doing this in 79/80 ish, we was doing this order from August 79 till christmas 80 on and off, all posts where erected along the full length of the M55 from Preston to Blackpool, Ok i did it with a chain morticer but it got a little bit boring day after day,

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4 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

You say doing 16 mortice & tenons was tedious,, can you imagine milling, then measuring & marking out and then morticing  approx 8500 6,5ft 6x3 larch posts all with 6 mortices in them, i was doing this in 79/80 ish, we was doing this order from August 79 till christmas 80 on and off, all posts where erected along the full length of the M55 from Preston to Blackpool, Ok i did it with a chain morticer but it got a little bit boring day after day,

That does sound a tad tedious. 😳

 

I do have a chain Morticer but was not needed on this job. Will use it for when I attempt a couple of Timber Frame projects in the house.

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