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Day 8: Carnivorous

The wildlife documented in the feywilds are strange. A ridiculous amount of megafauna and impossibly magical flora are just the base level. One things for certain-- everything there are frequent meat eaters.

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Colgate EALL (10)

A NOTE ABOUT COMMENTING (OF LATE). For some reason or another, in recent weeks blogger's commenting function has become, er, wonky. I have one regular reader, who, despite having a Google account, cannot get his comments to 'take' and has not been able to comment despite trying many times. I have no idea how to resolve this issue. And in recent weeks, for some unknown reason, I am not receiving notifications to my gmail account when people do post up comments. Again, a reader contacted me and mentioned that he had posted a comment a few days prior, but it had not appeared. Puzzled, I looked in my various inboxes, to no avail, then went to my blogger control panel, then to 'comments', then to 'awaiting moderation' and then I found the comment. After posting it, I checked settings to see that notifications were still turned on, and they were, so I am at a loss as to why this is happening. With the previous post, an update on my garden structures, I had imagined at least the odd reader might find the subject material worth a comment, but again, nothing in the inbox but some chirping crickets for days on end. So today it occurred to me to check the blogger control panel, and again, there they were in the 'awaiting moderation' queue. I'm sure some of the readers who had ventured comments must have been wondering what the heck was going on. And, unfortunately, in various attempts to try and solve this problem, like signing into and out of 'Google Plus' (whatever that is) and other things I tried clicking on, I inadvertently deleted about 6 months of comments from this blog. And there seems to be no way to get them back. So, I'm really sorry about all of that hassle with comments and am at a loss as to how to resolve the problem. Contacting Google directly? Are you dreaming? They only provide a forum where you can post your questions - you know the scene, so typical with modern tech company approaches to 'customer service'  - - and I use that term lightly. I think I would rather shout into the wind frankly. Anyway, please don't be shy about commenting, if you see something worthy of it of course, and I'll make a habit of looking for comments via the control panel in blogger instead of expecting notifications. ----------- Recent weeks of work on the Colgate project have involved a pair of hanging transoms, one for the Japanese space and one for the Chinese space, each at the end of the hallway. The Japanese one is simple in form - here is the inner frame and panel portion, mostly complete:

The lattice framework is wenge, which seems to be in short supply these days in these parts - I had to go, as per usual, as far afield as PA to get a couple of sticks, which were of excellent quality. The junction in the middle is the standard double-mitered half lap:

The frame and panel assembly will be sandwiched between these two avodire beams, which in turn will be fitted to a pair of opposed decorative avodire 'posts' - since this fitting will be done on site once the posts are up, I cannot fit the wenge frame end members to this framework quite yet:

Another view:

The transom for the entry to the Chinese room employs a lattice pattern, which is composed of individual mahogany sticks mortised and tenoned together:

Any slight irregularities in the frame joints were cleaned up afterwards by plane:

A tie of sorts between 'Japan' and 'China' is provided, as it were, by employing a wenge surrounding frame here also. Once that wenge frame's joinery work was done and test-fitted, a 'clampapalooza' ensued:

When you clamp like this, you get thirsty for seltzer - I needed two cases. A find wenge quite fine to plane, but it is also, I must say, one of my least favorite woods in which to handsaw (and it's no thrill to chisel either):

The completed assembly, with surrounding mahogany frame (upside down in this view):

Here's a view of the frame in the intended orientation:

The wenge partners nicely with the mahogany it seems to me. I am pleased with the way it come out, and I think the two transoms form a nice pair of 'bookends' for the space in which they situate:

Next, a look at one of the frame's upper corner joints:

The upper corners employ this sort of mitered, finger jointed affair, while the lower corners of the frame employ mitered joints with internally concealed dovetails - but the miters are found only on the front and back edges and not all the way around the joint. Sorry, I forgot to take a pic. There is a reason that the upper and lower joints are different. The upper ones were chosen for simplicity and relative ease of fabrication, while the lower ones will allow me to take shavings off of the lower portions of the vertical frame members without upsetting the look of the miters or risking end grain tear out, and as the lowers are exposed to view I decided to give a quietened down visual instead of a joint like you see above, which will be buried in the ceiling. Based on my story pole from the site, I know that the walls in this location for this transom are about 1/16" out of parallel, so I have made the outer framework to the larger story pole measurement, and will trim the frame on site after seeing how it fits first. All for this round - thanks for tuning in.