Showing posts with label timber frame shop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label timber frame shop. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Quiz: Rough Sawn or Surfaced Material?

Timbers ready for packaging
Can you tell if this is rough sawn or surfaced material?

Mortises 

How about these?

Ready for layout
Or these?

Timber layed out
How about this one?

Ready for layout
These are easy (for me).

Tenon on arch

This one is a bit more challenging.

Answers below:






















These are all Douglas fir timbers.  The first three pictures are surfaced (you can tell by the chamfer--we don't typically chamfer rough sawn timbers), the next two pictures are rough sawn (look for the saw marks from the sawmill), and the last is surfaced (before the chamfer).  How did you do?  I got a six out of six...


Thursday, January 24, 2013

Oak Timber Frame

Oak Corbels
Oak timber frame in Canada
Here is Kellin working on a big piece of oak for a job in Quebec.  We lay out several corbels on one timber.  You can see his timber saw horse in the background.