Trellis - all about it(?)

Final piece of 'architecture for the garden is now underway, a tiered trellis. Unlike tower of power, this piece does not feature battered (compound-sloped) posts. It has its points of interest however, and like the other bits I've made over the past few weeks as we establish our new garden, it is made using joinery.

One little cut-out glitch today required a patch - here, I'm starting to clean it off:


After planing was done in the curly Jatoba zone of patchiness, it seemed altogether more presentable:


The plane, while not totally sharp, did its work:


Curly Jatoba was not part of the plan (not that there is much of a plan with these pieces), however I ran out of Teak and Spanish Cedar scraps of adequate length for this portion of the frame, and Jatoba is a lot cheaper than Ipé, and - most helpfully - available to me locally. I was surprised after jointing and planing to see that a couple of pieces were curly, something I had not seen in Jatoba before. It would have been nice to save it for another project, but that would have required another trip to the hardwood dealer and more money, so I decided to go ahead with it. Fancier than it needs to be? Yes.

A few shots of the various joints in progress on this trellis to, possibly, just maybe, whet your appetite, pique your interest, even titillate:


Haunched tenons:


Through tenons, which are a bit long at the moment and will be trimmed back:


Teak always look so cool when freshly cut, but alas after a few weeks it all looks the same color. You know, that teak color.

What's going on here?:


The trellis is coming together decently so far, and I'm not fussing the details, just knocking the bits together about as fast as I can do the cut out. This trellis is for cucumbers and maybe some squash, so in a few months it will look much like a big green leafy cube in the garden.

By the way, did the pun in the post title work for you?

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