Don: I felt like a butcher many times. The hardest part of the joinery was returning to the frame after working my (real job) all week and losing the continuity. My biggest screw up was doing the mirror image of the timber I last work the week before. The mistakes are part of the house and they show an important human element. A few of my biggest mistakes, show the peg going through the mortise, sort of like an internal investigation. Since I used oversized timbers, the mistakes were trivial so I used them as psych art.
Tim On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM, DON BERTOLETTE <[email protected]>wrote: > Tim- > Nice work! > Reminds me of one of my favorite coffee table books, "The Wood-butcher's > Guide to Art"! > -Don > > ------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:24:21 -0400 > Subject: [ENTS] White pine is a great wood for building a timber frame > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > Russ: > > When I was building the timber frame 15 years ago, I played around with > many different kinds of wood. Early framers used beech, spruce, chestnut, > white pine, red spruce, hemlock, aspen, ironwood, ash, oak, yellow birch and > sugar maple. The English colonists used white oak because it was very rot > resistant and abundant. I mostly used white pine because it is very stable > and has one of the lowest shrinkage rates of northern trees. I felt like I > needed a walking stick after working many long hours on most of my > vacations. > > Tim > > > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ ' target='_new'>Sign up > now. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
