human resources (department) is for punishing the human resources (employees).

Thank you. I’m cured.

Shabydes Desbyign

I think i went to high school with her.

Zima board?

Nice, yes that was what I was looking for. Dowels do sound a lot easier to deal with than a custom joint, especially for a newbie to woodworking and joinery like myself. I sort of made a mortise and tenon joint with the vertical leg and one horizontal leg, and then cut half of the mortise (leaving just the upper half), and made another mortise and tenon joint for the other horizontal leg, cutting half of the mortiose (leaving just the bottom half), trying to get those to fit in nicely. I think it could work but one imperfection and I need to dimension more wood. I guess difficult things are difficult to do.

Dowels huh? Now you have me thinking. Again, great project, it looks really nice!

I’m sorry, I don’t know the name of what I’m asking for, but I do know it’s more of a shoji or traditional joinery question than it is a question of the kumiko itself. Your kumiko looks lovely by the way.

The kumiko itself I have jigs for and is the part of the process I’m most excited about getting to. However right now, I’m working on the outside frame of the lamp, what looks like might be the oak peices in your photo.

Specifically, the joint I’m looking for is the three way joint to join one long leg of the lamp to the bottom of the frame that houses your kumiko.

I think you’re refering to the mikomi and mitsuke. Looking at a book I have on the subject, I think I’m refering to joint to join the stile to the bottom rails and the top rails, treating the lamp as a shoji with 4 sides to it. Did you use a joint for this, or just wood glue (I see no nails).

Would you mind sharing the joint you used for this? I’ve gotten a few books on kumiko and wanted to make a lamp similar to yours. I’ve been trying to figure it out from a photograph and have most of the wood dimensioned already. Japanese joinery is pretty fascinating and complex, and I’ve been trying to find a good joint for these corners. I started making one that might work but I cut a bit too much off and I really don’t know what I’m doing here.

maybe then you want to try manually falling back to LTE. from the docs:

LTE: This setting should only be selected if experiencing service issues in locations that offer multiple network types and only LTE is needed.

the phone does it when you set it to automatic. but you haven’t set it to automatic, so it sees 4g and 3g and says “nope, my user would rather have no service than 4g or 3g service”.

you may want to get a UPS for your modem and wifi. a nice 1000watt UPS should give you a few hours of internet when the power goes out.

The phone is trying this on it’s own but you are preferring not to use it, instead preferring 5g networks.

Honestly you should probably just let the phone do its thing. Various bands have various capabilities. 5g is very fast, goes through concrete but doesn’t travel far (even via air). LTE has more bands in lower frequencies than 5G does IIRC, and lower bands travel greater distances and serve more customers. Phones automatically try to use the 5g signal, falling back on 4g, then 3g, 2g… the reason the feature you enabled exists is when there are stronger 4g signals that are getting picked up and there is still a 5g signal within range. In your case I doubt the 5g signal is in range.

Btw, your pixel should be using wifi calling at home, which uses the internet and gets as good of a signal as your home wifi does.