Mallet / Blind Fox Wedged Tenon

Don:

I’d believe that they both fits the rules. The blade is not what is holding the thing together. The blade is the desired result. And I don’t think of string as a mechanical fastener.

No more than a wedge being an illegal fastener.

Good luck, I’m still in the construction phase.

You might want to change your title to 2007 entry.

Karson

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I’m in the process of making a Hickory Mission Style Bed. The slats are mortise and tenon and the tenons are held in place with dowels. No glue, no nails. But if i attach the hardware that fastens the sides to the ends, does that disqualify me?

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I don’t think Martin intends to get picky about the rules, in the end, it’s up to the voters to decide what meets the rules and what doesn’t by how they vote.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

good entry! didn’t expect to see a mallet show up in the wood joinery competition, very nice.

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Oh, and Obi… if the hardware wasn’t wood – and it holds the sides to the ends, then I’d consider it a no-no. – but I’m sure – given enough time and thought – there is a way to make it all work so that only wood is what’s holding the bed together.

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Hi Don;
—-’very good’ in-deed!!!

I have all-ways since your coming here Don, known and felt that you are a man of ‘integrity’, a hard word for some to swallow in today’s society, but you have in my estimation full-filled the requirements quite successfully as seen by your following statement! ”There is no question, this project meets my strict interpretation of the rules. My conscience is clear!”

I also agree where you have stated; ”To simply have one joint that met the rules and the rest that didn’t, seemed to be playing loose with the interpretation.” The rules as pertaining to at ‘least one joint’ were so that one would have to make a project with ‘wood joinery’....not a project with no-joints. I mean if you are entering in ‘wood joinery’ and your project has no ‘joinery’, what have you proved? And then comes the clarification for at least ‘one joint’.....it never entered my mind that a lumberjock would do just one ‘wood joint’ and the rest of the wood project would be with glues and mechanical fasteners. To my understanding of the rules for entering in ‘Wood Joinery’, we are to have one or all joints with no glues or mechanical fasteners….’anywhere’ used in the construction of the project. I myself often do not like rules and so I call myself an artist and create art by how I want to interpret the rules of the wood, but then when I also enter into a contest, I am responsible for holding myself to and by the rules of that contest. I do feel that if I judge myself rightly first, then other’s will also judge me rightly as I have judged myself….

I really like what you have entered here and then you went and topped it off by doing a Blind Fox Wedged Tenon, which is no-small feat, I also noticed you used tung oil….great finish! What a good show of ‘wood art’ coming from the land of oz!

Thank you Don; for sharing and entering this project with us and in the category of ‘Wood Joinery’.
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

and the rules get clearer and muddier :)

Fascinating joint, Don.

And the skill to make it work – -yah, tons of patience required.
I liked the mallet before, but now—yah, a whole new level of appreciation

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Really neat Don! I’m struggling with the challenge too. I’m still in the, uhhhhh-stage! Living within the letter of the rules is one thing…living within the intent of them is another. I like to surround myself with the “intent” people. Too many think the definition of right and wrong depends on what they can get away with. You make everyone bring their “A,” game!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Great work Don and very true to the competition. I hope the competition doesn’t get too many rule benders. Ditto on what Mot said….unfortunately black and white becomes grey for too many people. Kind of like the days when building a soap box racer as a cub scout. My dad would only show me how to use the tools, he wouldn’t help with designing or building of the car at all. I was really mad when I saw some of the entries that had obviously been built by some of the kids Father’s (despite the rules) ended up winning the competition. When I complained to my Father he asked me if I thought any of those kids had learned anything while their Dad built the car. When I said no he asked who I thought the real winners were. He was a pretty smart guy. The following year I won the competition even against the stacked odds of foolish fathers. I was a persistant bugger even then. I built 6 prototypes before building the fastest one because I was determined that the cheaters wouldn’t win again.

Obi- Put the bed in the garden….:) Actually a draw-bored mortice and tenon would hold the sides to the end pretty nicely and look good to boot. Then if you put it in the garden you could enter it in both.

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Thanks for the affirmation, Mates, What a fine group of men & women you are!

Bob, your father was so right. What an amazing heritage wise honest parents leave their children.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

Don – I like your mallet a lot.

-- cheers, Claire (in Oz!)

I know its my imagination but the ends of the bow saw that hold the blade look like hands.

Would your joint be stronger if the lower inside of the mortise was flared out so the handle shaft could expand a little more inside the mallet?

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-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

SD, it probably would. Next time. I’ll try that. It should be any harder to do.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/