52 Joints in 52 Weeks
For a couple of years now, I have found myself struggling through projects where I don't quite have the skills to do them well - particularly the joinery. At one level, the projects have been fulfilling because I have learned and improved, but then I move on to a different project, different challenges, and by the time I come back to a particular skill, I have slipped down the learning curve.
To try to fix that, in 2016 I am going to try to cut 52 different joints in 52 weeks, ideally at a pace of about one per week. The idea came from Chris Gochnour's Handwork column in the most recent Fine Woodworking (#252), "Cutting the Half-Lap", which is where I am going to start. Along the way, I will pick joints from projects I do, various articles, and work through a wish-list. Sometime fairly soon, I will try half blind dovetails. At some point, I want to learn some of the spectacular Japanese joinery I have seen, including the amazing Otemon temple gate joint. Walk before you run...
Depending on the source material I use, I will try to write up my notes to myself as a tutorial. For some, such as the half-lap FWW article, the source already is a tutorial, so the posts will be more observations and results.
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