{"id":30177,"date":"2024-09-15T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainydaymagazine.com\/wp\/?p=30177"},"modified":"2025-03-16T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T17:55:12","slug":"tameshigiri-series-firstcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rainydaymagazine.com\/wp\/2024\/09\/15\/tameshigiri-series-firstcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tameshigiri Series: FirstCuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent posts to our Tameshigiri series<\/a>, we showed the carving of the cutting post<\/a> and the rolling of the tatami mats<\/a>. With those tasks completed, the remaining two tasks are 1) how to prepare the mat, and 2) how to mount it to the post for FirstCut<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Make a hole<\/h2>\n

While the carving on the post is purely decorative, the post’s purpose is to be a platform for the mat. For the rolled mat to stay upright right on the post, it can either stand freely or be helped to stay in place by a rod\/dowel of some sort. For the rod option, we decided that making a centered, 1\/2″ wide, 2-ish” deep hole<\/a> on top of the post would do the trick.<\/p>\n

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For the hole to provide the needed stability for the rolled mat, it needed to be straight<\/em> down, and we needed the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n