Sadly not a video, but here is a pic in daylight.

And a pic of my setup.

Ah, and apparently one I made along the way.

I would argue that Germany is not a socialist country. Politics are targeted at the already wealthy and cooperations.

I’m not versed enough in politics and history to give detailed examples. I’m just a normal guy. However, I’m currently listening to the Jung & Naiv podcast on Spotify.

In episode 661 they discuss the development of the housing sector since the 1950s and very little in the 18th century. The important information is that the housing sector grew from being socialist to being a housing market.

I think they mention that in the 50s there existed a “Kostenmiete” (Cost-rent). That would only be allowed by law to be as high as it needed to be to cover the costs for building the house/flat. The owners were not allowed to make profit exceeding 3.5%. Any profit had to be put into housing again to keep the housing sector growing. Around that time the state was heavily supporting housing unions and other groups (not cooperations) to build housing. The state itself built 500.000 !!! appartments a year. Last year the interview says they built 6 appartments. Six, in case you thought you read a typo.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ At least in the housing market we are not socialist anymore and it becomes worse every year. Education becomes worse every year. The medical sector becomes worse every year. Public transport becomes worse every year. Loans do not keep up with inflation. Everything becomes more expensive.

Yes, we are better off than many. But are we not just richer slaves with more benefits than others? The interview says that there exist studies that estimate 11 million households to qualify for social housing. In some cities that is 60% of their population. 60% quality for social housing. Are we alright?

As a German, I think I would. Given that it is good and just.

Thanks a bunch :)

Haha, no the wall is just barely lit. I had to roll down the shutters to take the picture.

Phew, this took me a while to research. It is a variant of Tsuno-shokkō. I basically left our the connecting bars and put the pattern in every instead of every second frame intersection.

Thanks you both, this fits my description perfectly.

Great article, thanks for posting. I also left a donation.

Why not move to Afghanistan and listen to modern music for a little adventure?

cough freedom of choice cough. I choose not to allow freedom of choice.

Literally. The moment someone wants to have a look at my anus, I’d already have shown them. What’s the deal with everyone? We need to be more transparent with these kind of topics. Nobody wants to share anymore. We are all walled off behind our smartphones and doors and houses.

You’re welcome and thank you! Yes, I also tried similar joints on one lamp. It turned out that I am too impatient and imprecise to create such joints by hand. Dowels seem much easier and achieve about the same thing. The angle doesn’t matter in this case as there aren’t large forces involved, so (1) initial hand adjustment and glue should suffice and (2) the Kumiko frames will push the the connecting bars in the right angle anyways.

If I understand correctly, you mean the joints where the horizontal oak bars meet the vertical leg?

On another lamp I tried simple butt joints, but those were too imprecise. The other lamp sort of became diamond shaped instead of square shaped when looking at it from the top. Also, butt joints would have caused this lamp to fall apart, because the kumiko frames where a little bit too large for places where they are now press fitted in.

On this lamp I support these butt joints with regular round dowels. This allows me to exactly measure where a horizontal bar would be needed to be placed to fit the kumiko frame. Any error during drilling would of course ruin the whole thing. Due to the oak bars only measuring 12mm in width, the dowels could only be inserted about 8mm deep for one horizontal bar and about 4mm for the other perpendicular bar.

As for how the kumiko frames are attached to the lamp frame: slide in and glued.

Thanks :) I briefly mentioned this in another comment: Measure thrice and plan in some slack. I measured thrice but didn’t plan in slack. Thus the frames where the littlest too large to fit into their places (~0.5mm) When forced in, the joints of the frame jumped open a little bit.

Yes 😄 though I like the simplicity of it.

Definitely crashable. I have to touch it with silk gloves. The T joints lack glue and are pushed apart by the inserted Kumiko frames, because my measurements were a little off. I’m happy it stands as it does 😁

Sure, but I must admit that I am too very new to this and lack the proper tools to make more complex joints as precise as they need to be in adequate time.

I don’t know the proper name. All joints here were simply cut half the width of the individual bars and then stacked into each other. I.e. the bar is 2x10x100mm, the cuts for the joint must be 2x5mm. Very simple.

As a beginner I would advise you to start with square templates first and then insert square patterns into those, like here or here of another lamp of mine. I don’t have the tools myself to work with triangle templates and patterns.

One little square is about 1x1cm. The whole thing measures about 12x12x35cm.

Those are Hatagane, japanese bar clamps. I use them for such small things where regular clamps would be too bulky and too heavy.

And some progress pics

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