Planning a Japanese inspired garden shed

[GRadice]

Got the rafters down to dimension but no joinery. I'll do that after the frame is up. I also finished dimensioning the floor joists. Joinery after the frame is up as well.

I'm almost done with the joinery for the barge boards. Just like the test boards shown up thread but with much nicer stock. The boards are about 7 ft long and will finish at about 6.5'.

Despite my best efforts I didn't get the angles on the back side of the joints layed out quite right. I spent the day fixing that. The miters on the show face are dead on, though. All hand saw and chisel work with a little routering to level the mating faces of the large tenon surface. I still have to chisel out the trenches for the tapered locking pins.

A few pix.




 



 

 

 

And Willa is now 7 months old. Here she is today looking all golden retriever-y.



 



 





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[GRadice]

Got the barge board miter joinery sorted out, with a little cleanup planing to do.

Here is one set. I'll make the wedges when I'm ready to assemble the frame in a few months. I'll also do the joinery for the ridge and eave beams on the back sides then.



 

 

[Walnut Beast]

Very nice work Gary! Beautiful looking pup! 

[bigblockyeti]

Looking good Gary.  You must be burning the candle at both ends with this project and posting everything online, in at least two places I've stumbled upon.  I was on the other site seeing what you've done and saw this here, when I went to compare, there was no comparision, same pictures

[GRadice]

Busted!  Yes, I've posted on another forum, too. Mostly different audiences, I suspect, but I guess not entirely!

[bigblockyeti]

I think there's probably pretty good overlap between woodworking machinery and forestry machinery.  I joined as a woodworker who's now sourcing logs for my own lumber.