Hello Folks - update No. 2.
I'm a bit rusty with the old woodworking craft. I had briefly forgotten how time consuming it is marking up, but I remember now! :smiling: :thumb2:
Firstly, I ordered a new backdrop for photographing the work a couple of weeks ago. It arrived last week but was sadly unusable. Long-short: I exchanged a few emails with the supplier and have now been fully refunded without having to return the backdrop - a nice little bonus I guess - will use it for something. I've since ordered another drop very similar to my previous one from the old workshop - it should arrive any day now. Just thought I'd ramble on a bit and mention this minor detail.
All of the components in the five frames are now marked up excluding the braces and the narrow studs. That's 129 components and 184 mortice & tenon joints. The workshop is now clean and tidy (just thought I'd mention that bit too) and ready for crafting the joints.
This photo was during the setting out and marking up process. I had to adapt my old bench hook which is now in the well of the bench instead of hooked over the bench. This is purely because I don't have the room behind me for sawing. I have also been using the jack plane to clean up pieces of timber I ripped down for the narrow studs.
And here are all five frames marked up and ready for action.
You can also see the plinth splayed posts in the above photos which are for the porch and rear frame. The two with the lower mortices already chopped out in the plinths are for the rear frame and the other two (on the right) are the porch corner posts. Here they are below more closely.
If you can see a couple of the top halves slightly leaning, it's because I haven't glued them yet and they're sitting on slightly cupped joint dividers.
I really like this subtle feature, especially with the joint dividers which is 2.4mm oak construction veneer. I'm unsure whether to leave these in natural oak or paint them in the accent black before glue assembly - as per drawings. I think I fancy the black. :thinking:
I love projects like these, because they can change a wee bit as the work progresses. When I designed Project Merlin, I included 4 spiral stair possibilities. I have now designed/merged another possibility and I'm really drawn to this one. So much so, I've ordered 4/25mm hand blown glass beads which I'm hoping I can use for the lamp feature on the stair column.
Here is spiral stair No. 5 - the column will made using cocobolo; a tropical South American hardwood. I hope to replicate this as an actual bole of a tree. The quad lamp stand will then elevate from a coned cap and branch out into the roof space with the 4 glass spheres hopefully glowing with a welcoming warmth of beauty.
That's it for now.
Many thanks.
I'm a bit rusty with the old woodworking craft. I had briefly forgotten how time consuming it is marking up, but I remember now! :smiling: :thumb2:
Firstly, I ordered a new backdrop for photographing the work a couple of weeks ago. It arrived last week but was sadly unusable. Long-short: I exchanged a few emails with the supplier and have now been fully refunded without having to return the backdrop - a nice little bonus I guess - will use it for something. I've since ordered another drop very similar to my previous one from the old workshop - it should arrive any day now. Just thought I'd ramble on a bit and mention this minor detail.
All of the components in the five frames are now marked up excluding the braces and the narrow studs. That's 129 components and 184 mortice & tenon joints. The workshop is now clean and tidy (just thought I'd mention that bit too) and ready for crafting the joints.
This photo was during the setting out and marking up process. I had to adapt my old bench hook which is now in the well of the bench instead of hooked over the bench. This is purely because I don't have the room behind me for sawing. I have also been using the jack plane to clean up pieces of timber I ripped down for the narrow studs.
And here are all five frames marked up and ready for action.
You can also see the plinth splayed posts in the above photos which are for the porch and rear frame. The two with the lower mortices already chopped out in the plinths are for the rear frame and the other two (on the right) are the porch corner posts. Here they are below more closely.
If you can see a couple of the top halves slightly leaning, it's because I haven't glued them yet and they're sitting on slightly cupped joint dividers.
I really like this subtle feature, especially with the joint dividers which is 2.4mm oak construction veneer. I'm unsure whether to leave these in natural oak or paint them in the accent black before glue assembly - as per drawings. I think I fancy the black. :thinking:
I love projects like these, because they can change a wee bit as the work progresses. When I designed Project Merlin, I included 4 spiral stair possibilities. I have now designed/merged another possibility and I'm really drawn to this one. So much so, I've ordered 4/25mm hand blown glass beads which I'm hoping I can use for the lamp feature on the stair column.
Here is spiral stair No. 5 - the column will made using cocobolo; a tropical South American hardwood. I hope to replicate this as an actual bole of a tree. The quad lamp stand will then elevate from a coned cap and branch out into the roof space with the 4 glass spheres hopefully glowing with a welcoming warmth of beauty.
That's it for now.
Many thanks.
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