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Laney College's Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Japanese Gate Project - 2006/12/02

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Highlights from today's class:

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Manny worked on a mock up joinery which we will use for the gate's post and beam. The joinery is similar to the yatoi hozo sashi as found in "The Complete Japanese Joinery", pg 257. The book "Encyclopedia of Wood Joints" by Wolfram Graubner refers to it as lapped rod mortise and tenon.
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8, 9 - Jay goes over some design changes for the gate. Note the cloud patterns which will be used on the rafters.
10, 11 - Completed mockup of the gooseneck joint which we built last week (see here).
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14 - Dovetail mortise which will house the slanted dovetail rafters.
15, 16, 17 - Bob sawing the slanted dovetail on the rafter.
18 - Jason sawing the dovetail housing on the ridge beam.
19, 20 - Jay and Manny discussing the layout for the post and beam joinery.
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22 - John (Merlie) sawing the slanted dovetail on the rafter.
23 - Phil sawing.
24 - Barry sawing.
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27 - John (Crane) at the sharpening station.
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29 - The through mortise is quite deep (post is 8x8) so has to be drilled out.
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Wade and Jason cutting the dovetail housings on the ridge beams. There are about 20 of them in the whole ridge beam, so it takes quite sometime to work through them all.
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36 - Donna sawing.
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40, 41, 42 - Manny chopping out the mortises on the post.
44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 - Jay working on the cloud pattern on a rafter.
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68, 69 - Bob's toolbox.
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81 - Phil removing waste from the dovetail housing.
82, 83 - Wade working on a lap joint.
84, 85 - Dovetail housing in ridge beam: partially completed (first picture), and completed.
86 - Manny's all-terrain daiku wagon!
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Test fitting of rafter to ridge beam. The dovetails are designed to fit loosely and will be wedged during final installation.