Class continued drafting out our structure including some of the joinery details. Some rafters were cut to length and planed. This job was finished today. We still needed to cut a couple of timbers on the saw mill to complete the ridge pole and wall plates.
There are three bents in our building. So we can work through each process, each bent will have different joinery elements. Tomorrow we'll hopefully assemble some of the completed bent parts in the shop.
Finished off the last of the purlins with the simple dovetail tenon for the upper floor. Assembled the wall plates to the purlins to check fit. There was a lot of sanding and routering of the parts. Once complete it will be a nice frame. We were told we were about a week ahead so far and expect to fully assemble the building soon.
Assembled some of our cabin components to be sure that they will all fit together. Once fitted, all parts are marked and taken apart to be put together on site. There's always some touch up work to be done.
Corner post, tie beam and brace detail.
Click on pic to enlarge, click here to see what it looks like when assembled.
Below is a set of drawings using Dietrich's 2D software to draw out our project. Click on the image to see a higher quality version of each view. The structure and plans were only used for instruction and entertainment purposes. Do not use these drawings to build your own cabin!
A mini video of the timber frame structure we built as our class project. Courtesy of Dietrich's software. Slightly better version here...
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