{"id":21,"date":"2013-04-21T22:14:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T22:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2013-06-07T20:25:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T20:25:28","slug":"japanese-lantern-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/21\/japanese-lantern-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Lantern Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yay!<\/p>\n<p>Seems like the box stores just don&#8217;t carry the types of kits that the lamp book recommended. But, I was able to cobble together a kit from the parts they had. Cost too much, but oh well. I might attemp re-leveling the feet. They looked ok on the bench, but not on the table (probably need to flatten the bench, which might wait for a new top to the bench in a few years).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_7019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22\" alt=\"Completed Japanese Lantern\" src=\"http:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_7019.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_7019.jpg 512w, https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_7019-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Lessons Learned:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do your stock shaping before your miter cuts.<\/li>\n<li>Miter cuts are hard to get right &#8211; I&#8217;m not super happy with how these came out. Maybe one the shooting board is complete, I&#8217;ll be able to fine tune these better.<\/li>\n<li>Ceder is nasty stuff. Wear proper dust mask <strong>and<\/strong> ventilate\/filter, whenever sanding or even using a fine pitched saw.<\/li>\n<li>Pine is probably too fragile for large splines.<\/li>\n<li>Splines wider than a saw kerf are hard to get right. Maybe now that the plow plane is fixed, this will be easier in the future (more on this in the next post).<\/li>\n<li>Getting the rice paper tight was one of my initial worries, but the book&#8217;s trick for spraying it down, after the glue has dried, to shrink the paper worked great.<\/li>\n<li>I do like the open time of hide glue, but if the room (ie garage) is a little on the cool side, then it is a good idea to keep it in a glass of warm water, so it doesn&#8217;t turn into silk thin threads of stretchy mozzarella too soon.<\/li>\n<li>I still like the expanding style glue for some things.<\/li>\n<li>A <a title=\"Old Woman's Tooth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inthewoodshop.com\/ShopMadeTools\/OldWoman%27sTooth.html\">router plane<\/a> sure would have been helpful attaching the top to the legs, but I&#8217;m not sure that the super small one required for this project would get used on other projects. Just a regular chisel seemed to do ok, even if a little time consuming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll be making another lamp in this style, give how long the project took. By maybe. I&#8217;d like to see if I could do a better job on the top, which didn&#8217;t come out quite as nice as I would have liked.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yay! Seems like the box stores just don&#8217;t carry the types of kits that the lamp book recommended. But, I was able to cobble together a kit from the parts they had. Cost too much, but oh well. I might attemp re-leveling the feet. They looked ok on the bench, but not on the table [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3p6ZE-l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russandbecky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}