12' x 16' Timber frame

That looks like a fun project. There must be some demand for timber framers out there. I saw a timber framer from Montana headed south on I-5 through Tacoma last week. Suppose he was headed south for a warm job this Winter? ;-))

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence

Great education. A lifetime of remembrances will be with every kid hanging, standing & sitting on the frame.

-- A childs smile is payment enough.

I love timber framing, both doing the joinery and looking at the finsihed product

-- "Good artists borrow, great artists steal”…..Picasso

Boy am I envious! I want to build one of those someday soon. Looks like a really fun project.

-- "I asked my wife if I look dorky in the video below where I'm planing that long piece of wood. Her reply: "It's all dorky."" - Mitch Roberson from his blog Furnitude

Thanks guys. Yeah Topamax, We have a couple companies in our area that go up to toronto, kingston and area… our rural areas are full of timber frames and log homes.

You guys can always come up here and take the program :P

-- - Alex. Ontario, Canada

Great job on the joinery.

-- Monty Q, Columbia, South Carolina.

neat work Alex

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Great project! I took a timber framing class at the North House Folk School in northern Minnesota a number of years back and ended up building my own 14’x16’ timber frame. It was a rewarding project that took me a number of years to finish on my own, but now that it is done we use it all the time. I’m sure this will generate a lot of really good memories for years to come. Thanks for sharing!

CKM

-- CKM - Minnesota

Alex, I ‘d be retired by the time I finished. If I didn’t retire, I might get too tired to finish :-))

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence

Cool project. I hope you guys will show a finished building. I think the timber frame building idea is really cool.

-- Steve-o

thats great CKM, I still have to buy a property before i make my own shop. would you happen to have pictures of your shop? I’d love to see it.

Topamax, Ah, it’s never too late…. but I see what you mean, eh ;)

Steveo, We don’t finish the timber frames, we put them up in front of the college and then later they get taken apart and moved… this will most likely happen next year. I would love to know where it ends up and go visit a few times, but we’ll see out it goes.

-- - Alex. Ontario, Canada

here I figured I’d give a few more close up pictures of the joinery

-- - Alex. Ontario, Canada

Is the 2nd one floor joists? Why only one dovetail? Do you dovetail every other one or every third one?

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence

yup, floor joists… I just checked the plans I have in our book, there’s no mention of dovetails, our teacher added this detail. If I remember correctly it was every second joist. In the end the ones with the post are dovetailed. I would help a bit to keep the sill plates from bowing out (just a bit :P)

BTW: floor joists and rafters are 4”x 6” and the posts and beams are 8” x 8”

-- - Alex. Ontario, Canada

This is so cool! I love timberframe.

-- Tim, Nevada MO