The Building Tree - Building Products

I had the opportunity to drop and meet the foks at The Building Tree which has a wide variety of very cool home  building supplies. Not a Big Orange Retail Giant type of place.

I really liked the solid surface (post form countertop replacement) made out of the garbage left over from sawmilling operations. It is nice to have a supplier for Land Ark finishes too, and one that I can even walk to at that.

The Building Tree in Nelson BC

A great link on traditional timberframing.

 This is a fine site with video examples of tradional timberframing techniques in France and the rest of Europe. There are well written articles and video and picture galleries too.

http://www.en.charpentiers.culture.fr/

Another frame goes up in Cranbrook

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.