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Wedding gift table

Cabinetman said:
Thank you Adrian, we HAVE to do something before next winter, Pam tool a step out onto the top one onto black ice and was very lucky not to have damaged anything more than her sense of humour as she eventually landed in a big bank of snow. It could have been very nasty.
Strange re the headstones, one, they lose history? Two, they must presumably be putting new coffins on top of old, not sure Granny would have liked some strange man lying on top of her for eternity lol.
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That's German recycling for you. I'm not sure of the practicalities, but the grave site is basically rented and after a couple of decades full decomposition is expected. If not, then any remains are buried deeper I think.

Re losing history - I guess over the lease period there will be 1 or 2 generational changes so no relatives generally to tend the plot etc. You tend to find in Germany that the town graveyards are very well maintained - not like is often found in the UK with collapsed headstones and overgrown ground.
 
Here's a bit of the cutout for that locked mitre joint. Skinny chisels and a skinny saw.



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Two kerfs from the small cross cut saw.

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Some chisel work with a 3 mm push chisel and then a 9 mm crank neck (kotenomi). I have two of these and this one is exceptionally thin which is perfect for this task.

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One or two saw cuts start the clean out of the entry hole, then a 1 mm chisel. I also used a 45 degree paring guide for this work.

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And then a bunch of clean up paring cuts checking often to establish a flat deck.

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Today was making the shachi sen. These are oak. As I think I've mentioned before, the schachi taper in length and thickness to match their trenches, and are parallelogram in section. After cutting out blanks on the band saw, I use two planing jigs to get the tapers and shape the parallelogram. I think the pictures explain the shaping. Each shachi is fit to its trench.

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Near the finish line. The last of the joinery is to make four yatoi hozo (dovetailed spline tenons is one translation) to hold the top frame onto the base. I've set them flush on the inside of aprons. This is an uncommon use for these an normally they would be inline with the grain direction of the the morticed piece, but I think they will work OK this way. They will be mostly hidden by the stone. Here is one of the long aprons, the yatoi hozo, and a long arm of the top frame. The other two dadoes are dovetailed and will receive cross braces that will help support the stone.

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I'm really enjoying this thread Gary - thanks for sharing. The Japanese joinery is particularly interesting and has introduced me to several joints I've never encountered before.
 
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