Part III - Setting Out & Marking Up

I had briefly forgotten how time consuming it is when setting out and marking up a complex project such as this. But I have now been reunited with the pleasurable task.

Marking up any project is crucial to the success of the project's build. This process cannot and should not be rushed. All 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. With this stage complete, the workshop is now clean, tidy, and ready for crafting the joints.

The first photo below was during the setting out and marking up process. With space restrictions in the new hobby workshop, 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 to provide adequate room for the swing action of a sawing arm.

Here in the photo below, I have used the Jack plane to clean up (or prepare) pieces of timber I previously ripped down for the narrow studs.

Here are all five frames marked up and ready for action.

You can also see the plinth tapered 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 yet glued them and they're sitting on slightly cupped joint dividers.

I really like this subtle feature of 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.

Wanna see more? Goodie!

The link below will take you to Part IV.

Part IV - Trial Run Dry Assemblies