Hey Noah! Glad you liked it. I debated whether or not I should try to explain everything I was doing but I thought it might be cool just to post it as is. Sometimes it’s fun trying to figure out why someone is doing something a certain way without being told what’s happening at each step of the way. Hope you’re well!
Very satisfying to watch the whole process. I'm impressed with the fit for the first time you are cutting this complicated joint-- that's some fine woodworking right there. When you pulled two pieces together, I noticed the gap on one side but was still thinking, not bad. Then I realized it was intentional so you could get the pieces apart! You should put the URL for this video next to the joint(s) so that when someone sees this fine piece of workmanship in a 100 years, and wonder "who the heck put this much work into something that's going to be hidden under a house?!," they can look up the video see! Are they still going to use URLs a 100 years from now?!
Good question. Seems like a silly thing to do but this timber had to go underneath my house and fit into mortises on both ends. Unless I were to remove the entire floor across two adjacent rooms there would have been no way to actually fit it in because of you include the length of the mortises the timber was longer than the span between the other two beams into which they fit. I could have cut them from two separate pieces but I just happened to cut them out of a single piece.
This is going to replace a rotten beam underneath the house. The only way to get this in place was to cut it into two pieces and assemble it together in the basement.
I came up with my own layout dimensions. I did some research on scarf joints and had read that the length of the scarf should be greater than 3x the height of the beam. So I went a couple inches longer just for good measure. Also the Tradesmans Channel has a few videos where he makes an undersquinted scarf joint and I got some ideas from him. I had actually planned to just do an undersquinted scarf originally but changed my mind at the last minute which is why the scarf angle is more drastic than the traditional Japanese version.
I had to replace a rotted beam under the house. The ends of the beam had tenons that went into mortises. Removing a rotted beam is easy. You just cut it and remove. But getting a new beam in its place is tough if you want to utilize the old mortises. That was the reason for cutting them in half - so i could insert each end into the mortises then reassemble once they were in position.
I like how you show the whole process. I may not fully understand all of it, but it's entertaining none the less. Cool video!
Hey Noah! Glad you liked it. I debated whether or not I should try to explain everything I was doing but I thought it might be cool just to post it as is. Sometimes it’s fun trying to figure out why someone is doing something a certain way without being told what’s happening at each step of the way. Hope you’re well!
Very satisfying to watch the whole process. I'm impressed with the fit for the first time you are cutting this complicated joint-- that's some fine woodworking right there. When you pulled two pieces together, I noticed the gap on one side but was still thinking, not bad. Then I realized it was intentional so you could get the pieces apart!
You should put the URL for this video next to the joint(s) so that when someone sees this fine piece of workmanship in a 100 years, and wonder "who the heck put this much work into something that's going to be hidden under a house?!," they can look up the video see! Are they still going to use URLs a 100 years from now?!
beautiful job
@@sig124 thank you!
Bravo Mate. Making that tomorrow. You helped.
Glad it was helpful! Good luck!
Nice job, But you cut the joint from the same piece so in other words you didn't actually need to do a scarf joint?
Good question. Seems like a silly thing to do but this timber had to go underneath my house and fit into mortises on both ends. Unless I were to remove the entire floor across two adjacent rooms there would have been no way to actually fit it in because of you include the length of the mortises the timber was longer than the span between the other two beams into which they fit. I could have cut them from two separate pieces but I just happened to cut them out of a single piece.
@@mikekim5135 ahhh alright, well that makes more sense.
Nice! Beveling the end of the wedge so it does not split off when driving it in...yes?
Yes! You may not be able to tell but i put a bevel on the end exactly for that purpose.
Nice job Mike! Looks great. How did it work underneath the house?
24:48 my favourite comment ;))
10:25 I saw Brach using a block of wood colored, and by passing it on the faces, the highs will show. I thought it was brilliant.
Please combine that with the under squinted
Boy that’s a lot of work. What will you use it for?
This is going to replace a rotten beam underneath the house. The only way to get this in place was to cut it into two pieces and assemble it together in the basement.
8:25... that will help... forgot about that.
Question: where did you get the dimensions for the cuts? Logic ?
I came up with my own layout dimensions. I did some research on scarf joints and had read that the length of the scarf should be greater than 3x the height of the beam. So I went a couple inches longer just for good measure. Also the Tradesmans Channel has a few videos where he makes an undersquinted scarf joint and I got some ideas from him. I had actually planned to just do an undersquinted scarf originally but changed my mind at the last minute which is why the scarf angle is more drastic than the traditional Japanese version.
Why do that when you have a perfectly good beam?
I had to replace a rotted beam under the house. The ends of the beam had tenons that went into mortises. Removing a rotted beam is easy. You just cut it and remove. But getting a new beam in its place is tough if you want to utilize the old mortises. That was the reason for cutting them in half - so i could insert each end into the mortises then reassemble once they were in position.
That is the same scarf that they have used in this country
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