Guess Who's coming to dinner, or guess who is about to become dinner.

I did lots of milling today for a timber frame garage project just started. A few tapered posts, some braces and plates were milled just before lunch. Durinig lunch, some pigs stopped by to see what I was having. didn't really know this about pigs, but they LOVE "Smartfood" brand popcorn.

 

Log cabin under construction - Scandanavian Scribe

Here are a few recent snaps of a log cabin under construction using the Scandanavian Scribe.
The footprint is 20' x20'


Peeling logs ....

 The first couple of rows of the 9 foot cabin walls.ma

Another angle with the hardest working non-human machine in the yard.

The corner detail

Here are the scribe lines just before the chainsaw biscuits get knocked out.

Silly little woodworking projects

 

A couple of shots of my instruments - Not timber framing but some nice woodworking

Renaissance Lute - Curly Maple Back

 

Baroque Lute - Rosewood Bowl.

The barn gets full

From the log in the forest

To the mill

To stacked and stickered in the barn

The overseer ...

It's been a while since the last blog post. This summer was taken up with harvesting, milling, storing and stickering some hard maple and cherry logs.

This maple log that Mike is standing beside was 14 and a half feet, 24 inches at the small end and heavy!!! It pretty much maxed out the mill and the one log filled the back of the truck. There was some nice tiger striping on some of the smaller pieces.

Mike tries out his Alaska sawmill for the first time. A crude but usefull tool.

1) Steve Y. on the scaffolding at Gile 's Buckingham.
2) The original stone fireplace at the Mayo house.
3) Porch details at the Mayo house.)
4) More porch railing details
5) Yet another view of the porch at Mayo.

The SawmillI

I found a couple of pictures of one of the tool purchases last fall. This is the sawmill as it sits on the trailer and as soon as the weather warms up a bit, we've got quite a few maple and beech trees to mill. We've also found a couple of rather large cherry trees and at least one smaller walnut tree to mill.