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I have a garden entrance gate that has rotted and I am planning to replace it.Because it matches my neighbour's gate I want to make one that looks the same rather than buy a ready-made gate. Also, making a gate should be fun. I've not done much woodwork before so I'm pretty much a novice.The original gate has a full frame with two stiles and three rails. It has no diagonal bracing in the frame but is faced with diagonally laid tongue & groove cladding. I guess the cladding provides sufficient bracing to resist sagging.I can't work out how the rails were joined to the stiles, there are three plugged holes on the stile opposite the rail, so I guess there may be dowels or maybe large screws.Anyway, I used some small scrap timber to make some test joints to see if it would be feasible for me to make a mortice & tenon joint or a lap-joint using hand tools. This was a lot of work and I'm inclined to use a lap-joint.
It will mostly be hidden behind the cladding so visually it will look the same as the old gate to most people.The lap-joint relies on glue, should I insert some screws to make the joint stronger or would that just create a pathway for water into the wood & joint? Use waterproof glue, make the joint tight-fitting, and leave the screws on the shelf. A lap joint is one of the strongest of all the glued wood joints, and a well-fitted glued lap joint will be at least as strong without the screws as with them.But. There's a condition.
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How wide are the two planks forming that joint? And which wood is being used? I ask because of wood's inherent expansion/contraction with humidity/moisture changes. If the joint is too wide for that species of wood, and the wood isn't extremely well sealed against moisture intrusion, then expansion/contraction will destroy the joint; nearly all woods expand & contract across the grain far more than they do along the grain.
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As the wood becomes moist, it'll become wider but not longer.Certain woods have a very low expansion/contraction rate. Other woods have a very high expansion/contraction rate.If the wood is extremely well sealed, its inherent expansion/contraction will be minimized, but can never be totally eliminated (there's no such thing as a perfect seal).If you're using wide boards, and that species of wood is subject to high expansion/contraction, then neither glue nor screws will prevent the joint from failing. Better in such a case to make a different type of joint, like a dovetailed saddle joint pinned across the 'inside' corner, for example. That's much more difficult to make, though. Another option would be a long mortise with a tenon narrower than the length of the mortise.Good outdoor gate joints are difficult things to make, since they're exposed to the weather and tend to collect pockets of water after a rain.
(See also )Here we are, playing the very same game, 40 years later, at the in 2011. Having taught that game for all those years, I've learned new ways of making it even more fun (as needed), turning the game into something of an event and ritual.First, there's getting everyone in a circle. It's easy enough to do when everyone is standing, facing the center.
A bit more of a challenge when you want them to be standing front-to-back. So, we start in a circle facing each other, maybe holding hands; then we let go of each other and all hold one arm out (right or left, depending on which way you want people to be facing - it doesn't matter which, as long as we all wind-up facing the same way), and all we have to do to turn in the direction our arm is pointing. (Look, when you're playing this with hundreds of people, these simplifications come in very, shall we say, 'handy'.).Next is to get everyone holding the waist of the person in front of them. This is a ticklish thing to ask people to do - a little personal, and, well odd. So that becomes another gamelet, which I've named 'The Zen Hip Swing.' I ask everyone to wiggle the hips of the person in front of them while letting your own hips get wiggled by the person behind. This is funny in a weird way - trying to relax enough to be wiggled while at the same time being focused enough to wiggle someone else.
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Kind of almost a psyho-physio-spiritual exercise.Further preparations might include rearranging people so those of exceptional width are positioned next to people of exceptional physical endurance, or those who are height-impaired are next to someone whose knees are more accommodating.The next goal is to get everyone sitting - not on each other's laps, as the name of the game might very well mislead you to conclude, but on each other's knees. Telling the community about the mechanics of knee-vs-lap (the knee-sit being columnar and far more likely to support a body of significant girth, whilst the lap not so much) adds a bit of anticipatory glee and focus, whether it is true or not.Final preparation begins with a 'test sit.' Here, the group is directed to initiate a knee-flex - slowly deepening said flex whilst using hands to help guide the person in front knee-ward, until actual, simultaneous knee-buttock contact has been achieved. Yes, I said 'buttock.' O, so intimate and slightly wrong.
The moment such contact occurs, people should stand and prepare for the 'real' sit (even though they've probably already experienced a something very similar).Now that the preparation has concluded, you might suggest that everyone turns around (hahahaha).We put each other in each other’s hands, and on each other’s laps. We let go enough to let the person behind us take care of us, take responsibility for our safety.
While we, at the same time, try to focus all our attention on the person in front of us, whom we are trying, lovingly, to guide to our knees, calmly, to leave themselves in our in our caring hands.And on to the actual sit. O, the sense of accomplishment and mutuality.Now, all those accomplished lap-sitters might want try to wave to the people on the other side of the circle (demonstrating their collective appreciation whilst further emphasizing their sense of firm-seatedness by holding on to each other with only one hand). Or maybe applaud each other' sitting skills (no holding at all). Or, take a brief rest by slowly lying back on to each other's tummies.
(There's a story you might share, again of slightly mythical origin, about how the Russian troops, while trekking across the snows during the Second World War, would do this to rest and keep each other warm.) And, should everybody still be sitting, you might suggest that they try walking while lying down on each other.Yes, yes, the idea here is to help everyone off each other's laps - and on to the ground. Because it's a great way to end the game, and the day and it makes people laugh.And now, today only, for your amazed amusement, carrying the spirit of the Lap Game to its logical conclusion: the 4 Girl Chair Trick.
