Mar 13, 2015

Building Concepts Course CMCC Week 21- First BENT Wall Erected

 Time honored timber frames..

This week on our second timber frame we worked quickly. The pictures jump around but our result can be seen in the video. We cut connecting girders which are the timber that connect the two BENT walls together. We also managed to get one wall fit with knee braces and assembled. That process is tricky but it went together pretty well in the end.


These are corner posts having the tenons cut on the tops of them. 






The picture to the left of a mortise cut into a connecting girders. These will cap the tenons coming up from the corner posts which lap the top bent plate on the bent wall. So the aim was to not drive the mortise all the way through so before cutting the lap joint onto to the end, I cut my mortise out and did not plunge all the way out the other side. Then cut the lap and what your left with is what the end of the tenon will rest in when its in a vertical, assembled position.



Following that my partner cut the two knee braces for the wall and we collectively cut the mortises for those and began the assembly.



Very good results!






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