An oven shelter for some new friends – A scribed frame of tornado-salvaged oak, cherry, and cottonwood!
A heartfelt thanks to Ben and Susan for spoiling me rotten during this whole thing and thanks to the raising crew – cheers to future pizza parties!
Not so common rafters!
Great client, great people, great times!
I was even reunited with Dr. Jonas, an elementary school friend who helped for the afternoon – thanks to everyone and see you at the next one!
“There is no old school – you either went to school or you didn’t” – Isaac Hayes
The start of a scribe job for some friends near Willow River
It can happen in the city, it can happen in a backyard, it can happen in a driveway, it can happen in your driveway because it can happen anywhere.
Look hard and you’ll find it…
I did not make this wolf!
But I know who did! I took some time off from my day job to catch up with some exciting timber projects. I miss everyone there already and the humbling experience of being surrounded by excellence tends to be less profound alone in my dusty garage (most days anyways).
Rafters:
Birdsmouths:
Cutting the birdsmouth shoulders:
Prefit!
We’re busy asking the hard questions here so you don’t have to.
Rafters and braces for a small awning. My favorite kind of small job for a loving client!
To hell with space travel, I’d put my money into making every day a sunny Friday afternoon instead. There will be jobs in space, too, and I think people forget that sometimes.
The finishing touch, or I should say my goodbye to Common Harvest Farm’s new machine shed. Thanks to Robin who helped out a lot with these. She’s not here, but she was there.
This is the first blog photo taken with my new phone! It’s not controlling me yet, but if I could teach it to update the blog, that would really be something.