Curly Maple Dovetail Kitchen Drawers

Completed and sliding effortlessly! Ok, this homeowner wanted new sliding hinges on the old drawers she had in her kitchen which were just wood sliding on wood drawers. After 100 years they finally gave up and the inner rails on the drawers broke, came unfastened and wore out. She has not used her drawers in a very long time because she could not open them. She is also getting older and just could not pull the weight of the lower drawers any...

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Building Concepts Course CMCC Week 26- Timber Frame Competed.

This past week we (my partner Chris and I) completed a second timber frame building. A 6' by 8' little playhouse of a shed. Well built, very strong little thing. It will serve someone a strong shed or playhouse for a child. This one went up much faster than the first one. A lot less figuring and more cutting the second time around. Check out the photos. Here we have a double set of rafters up and we are prepping for purlins. Purlins,...

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Building Concepts Course Week 25- Tiber Frame Door Opening and Rafters

This week we focused on framing into our timber shed the door RO and getting started on our roof rafters. In this first set of photos you can see the half lap joints we cut into the vertical stud members for the door to fasten to.  Here you can see the door opening.  Here you can see the tongue and fork joinery for the rafters. We begin by cutting everything on the ground and carry them into place. Then we plum the...

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