Definitions

[Don Case]

Cyphered planks

Harris cut

Thanks

[Lieste]

Cyphered planks is something I know only from a phrase 'flush beaded or cyphered planks' for the normal 'ceiled' walls of a Parish church vestry - the wooden cladding of a plastered stone wall, to around waist level.
It is distinct from an alternative finish for the same 'beaded planks' - which I presume to have a prominent 'beading' rather than a flush treatment. More specific details I don't know.

Harris cut is a style of glass engraving (characterised by curved lines meeting as a pointed arch, and crossing adjacent pairs) - often seen in drinking glasses. Look up examples and consider whether it might be relevant to the item described. I am assuming from the combination, that you are looking at decor of the cabins. It could refer also to decorative carving on wooden panelling.

[Don Case]

I'm working on a shot locker and they used those terms in "Scantlings". I'm thinking cyphered was tongue and groove or shiplap but I'm stumped

[druxey]

Harris cut is a straight diagonal cut for joining two pieces end on. The false keel it the usual application for this joint.

 

Cyphered joints are longitudinal half- joints, edge on.

 

See and read:

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=TWsmw-QqvmAC

Edited May 25, 2021 by druxey

[Mark P]

 

Good Evening Gentlemen;

 

The word 'Harris' in this context is a not uncommon misnomer. The word is actually 'Arris', which is a common term in stone masonry and carpentry, and is in regular usage amongst craftsmen. I believe that it actually is derived from either French, or Norman-French. It means a sharp edge or any corner formed by planes meeting at up to 90 degrees or so. 

 

However, many architects, or clients, on the mistaken assumption that the craftsman they overhear talking of the 'arris' is actually dropping the letter 'H' from 'Harris', which is a widespread habit amongst many English speakers, then refer to the 'Harris' in a misplaced desire to speak 'properly'. This is the derivation of the 'Harris' as a technical term, but it is totally erroneous. 

 

As an example, the horizontal timber used in fencing, which is triangular in section, and against several of which the vertical pales are fixed, is known as an 'arris rail'. 

 

So the correct term for which Don is seeking a definition is 'arris cut'. 

 

All the best,

 

Mark P

[Don Case]

I have "Elements" on my desktop. It's waiting in line while I read other stuff.

So Harris cut is like a short scarf and cyphered is shiplap?

[Bob Cleek]

1 hour ago, druxey said:

See and read:

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=TWsmw-QqvmAC

Thanks for the link! It's a good one. I was able to look up the meaning of "druxey." Quite interesting. "White fuzz rot" we call it. "The most easily overlooked defect." 

Edited May 26, 2021 by Bob Cleek

[druxey]

'Rotten to the core', Bob!

[mtaylor]

1 hour ago, Bob Cleek said:

Thanks for the link! It's a good one. I was able to look up the meaning of "druxey." Quite interesting. "White fuzz rot" we call it. "The most easily overlooked defect." 

Now that is a definition I didn't expect.  I'm not sure I'll be able to clear it from my brain either.    

[Bob Cleek]

16 hours ago, mtaylor said:

Now that is a definition I didn't expect.  I'm not sure I'll be able to clear it from my brain either.    

I've been digging rot out of wooden boats for over fifty years and I've never heard the term, either. I just happened to catch it as I scrolled through the glossary in the linked book. 

Edited May 26, 2021 by Bob Cleek