| Project by kcrandy | posted 181 days ago | 725 views | 0 times favorited | 10 comments |  |
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Just installed a gate I designed and made for the Japanese style fence at our house in Kansas City. I am new to woodworking and very much a novice when it comes to using my table saw. I had some two by four fir lumber which I ripped to one by two for the frame. Used lap joints at the corners and then used the dado cutter to make a groove into which the one by four fir slats were inserted. Although I thought this would be a sag proof scheme, my wife persuaded me to add the braces shown on the one picture, which we consider the back of the gate and which I now find quite decorative. The other picture shows how it looks from street side.
I very much enjoy this site and this is my first project post.
10 comments so far
lew
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posted 181 days ago
Very Nice!
I think the color scheme works really well!
DAN
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posted 181 days ago
well done … I like it
-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever
a1Jim
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posted 181 days ago
Looks nice it adds a lot to your fence. I would suggest that next time the bottom cross brace run the same direction as the top one in your photo for better support to prevent sagging. It seems perfection is just around the corner for all of us.
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon
patron
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posted 181 days ago
very zen ,
apple blosoms ,
painted wood ,
good work !
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Napaman
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posted 181 days ago
this is TRULY beautiful…and in addition to woodworking you must be able to consider yourself quite a landscaper!!!
-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...
kcrandy
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posted 181 days ago
Thanks all for comments and suggestions. The wife is the landscaper: a garden is an ever changing art form. I have yet another gate to do and this time I think I will run all the slats on the diagonal. One would think that would really kill any sag.
Blondewood
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posted 181 days ago
Very nice fence. Original. I like the paint with the natural wood. I agree with your wife about the necessity of the braces. I’ve made 8 gates, 2 batches of 4. The first batch was 12 yrs. ago. I didn’t use braces. Didn’t know enough to know I needed them. The gates sagged after a yr. or so. I bought the metal rods/braces. That was a Mediocre fix. The next set had wooden braces, the Z shape. So far no sag.
Vicki
Splinterman
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posted 181 days ago
Well presented and thought out.
-- I will just keep doing it till I get it right.
mtnwild
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posted 180 days ago
Good design for the fence. That’s what I want to do where an old fence sits now. Lets more light in for the plants. Plus it’s a good design if graffiti is a problem.
Love the green you chose.
Cool…..............
-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.
Profenceworks
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posted 16 days ago
Cool gate!
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