A Japanese timber framed garden shed

[Uncle Bob]

Looks very well built!

[r3nov8or]

I think I missed it... What's the roof material? Looks like zinc?

[GRadice]

It is tin coated stainless steel:
https://www.roofinox.com/en/

Made into interlocking panels by Spengler Industries:

https://spenglerindustries.com/products/quadro-panels/

[GRadice]

I finished the windows today. That took more fiddling than I would have liked. I had to remake one of the sash since it was out of square, and get the glass trimmed, and add weatherstripping. But now all done.

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Next up are the copper half round gutters.

[r3nov8or]

[GRadice]

I'm working on the doors and gutters now. The doors will look like this:

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Here are the milled rails, stiles and hip board layed out to check proportions. I was able to get wonderful stock: clear and straight grained. The hip boards are 300 mm wide with a rippled chatoyance.

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I have the mortices done.

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By a miracle (actually I knew a guy who knew a guy) I was able to get for about half price some new old stock, Japanese 80 mm half round copper gutters and brackets, and a rain chain from someone who purchased them from Japan and then never used them. The lot wasn't everything I needed but I was able to fill out the set with items from the same maker in Japan. The dollar/yen exchange worked in my favor although the shipping costs hurt. Oh, well.

Here is what the end caps for gutters look like. And the brackets are unusual in that they are tapped into holes in the end grain of the rafter tails. The risers for the brackets are graded in height to produce the drain slope. Apparently these are getting hard to find in Japan since building with exposed rafter tails is no long the norm.

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And the rain chain in place temporarily to make sure it was long enough. It is.

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The next step for the gutters is to solder the end caps and the short gutter sections together. I'm not a soldering expert so I've been researching methods and materials. My current plan is to use a 50:50 lead:tin solder, appropriate flux, and either/both copper soldering irons like this:

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Or a chisel tipped electric soldering iron that should arrive tomorrow. Or an open flame from a propane torch. Then some practice to see what works best.





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[r3nov8or]

Love the detail

[GRadice]

The front gutter is up along with its rain chain.

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[GRadice]

And tested the rain chain. It works!

https://youtube.com/shorts/dQZKL9X8qM4

[r3nov8or]

Aha! I thought the water was going to overflow each cup.

But thinking about it now, the potential for stagnant water would be an issue...

[GRadice]

Yes, and each flower acts as funnel to reduce splashing. Pleasant sound, too.