Sumitome hozo sashi, review

Friday night around 12 in the night I remembered there was a piece missing in my joint. I needed to make it there and then since saturday was picking up a Walker Turner bandsaw and then eating lamb for the whole afternoon, before putting the saw down in my porch and taking a bus to Valdivia, place where I am right now. 

Here is 11 hours in bus from Santiago, green, wet and full of trees. Beautiful. There's a river, mountains and sea. One of the options is to move here in the future. 

First of all, here's the finished joint:

I added a kaneori mechiire for the sake of practice

again gappy... me not so happy

I guess in 6 months or so I will come back to it and see if I have improved. 

One of the lessons is not want to be done. " This puts me in the mindset of wanting to be done" says Jason and I totally can relate to that. Instead of living in the now of cutting the line, marking or chiseling whatever needs to be done at the moment, you are taking by your mind into the I want this shit DONE. NOW. And then you are done, the lines wanders, your mind wanders and things stop flowing and errors accumulate.  

Concerning the dynamics of the cutting, I guess Gabe nailed the cutting order and that's what I will follow next time. Also, I need to lay out all the pieces at the same time and not try to transfer marks as if they were dovetails. A sashigane would be nice too, or just spend a bit more time getting real square timber on the first place. Paring blocks also sound like a good idea but I need to arrange some clamps first. 

I forgot the memory of my camera today so no pictures of Valdivia yet. 

Congrats to all, I'm pretty sure we all learnt a lot and we are looking forward to the next one. Who's gonna post the next drawing? 

I brought a kanna, 2 chisels , one hammer, a square and a disposable saw without a handle. Let's see what I can do with em.