{"id":440,"date":"2015-06-08T21:19:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T04:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/?p=440"},"modified":"2015-06-08T21:19:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T04:19:54","slug":"thwart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Thwart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00846.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-441\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00846-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00846\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00846-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00846-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00846.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nice clear piece of Douglas fir is going to be my first thwart. I say first, because I have a feeling that this is going to take a few tries to get right. It&#8217;ll probably be something that only experience on some portages will tell. Luckily it&#8217;s an easy part to swap in and out.<\/p>\n<p>I just drew out the lines for it by guessing what looked right. No idea how this will fit my neck and shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>Kerfs down to the lines allow the waste to be popped out easily with a chisel. If you have a bandsaw, then congratulations. I don&#8217;t have a bandsaw, yet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00847.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-442\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00847-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00847\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00847-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00847-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00847.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I start shaping by chamfering the corners. Then I mark out centre lines and go to town with an axe to make the chamfers meet the lines. No photos of the axe fury unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00848.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-443\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00848-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00848\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00848-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00848-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00848.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But this is where the axe got me to in a matter of minutes. Right tool for the job.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00849.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-444\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00849-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00849\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00849-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00849-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC00849.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sloyd knife and spokeshave do a nice job of turning the axed surface into fair curves.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to take some finagling to get the ends to fit nicely with the curved and angled inwhales. Can&#8217;t wait to get rid of that cedar 2&#215;4 that&#8217;s been my thwart for almost a year. Soon to come. It&#8217;s getting so close I can taste it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice clear piece of Douglas fir is going to be my first thwart. I say first, because I have a feeling that this is going to take a few tries to get right. It&#8217;ll probably be something that only experience on some portages will tell. Luckily it&#8217;s an easy part to swap in and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huron-cruiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}