Oxfordshire Woodland Group

The jowl posts have now been double cut and fitted to ensure perfect alignment between the face of the #tace and the top of the #jowlpost shoulder to ensure a proper level seating for the tie beam.

The sills have been fitted to the post bottoms and then the centre post scribed and fitted between wall plate & sill. The wall braces have been laid out marked and cut to size ready for fitting to the wall plate and posts.

The braces were cut and fitted and then the side wall frame was pulled together and checked for square. Perfect !

Sidewall frame #1 was taken apart and stacked.
Sidewall frame #2 was then set up to scribe and fit braces and centre post.

The geometric complexity of the tace and teazle tenon of tying joint (RN) is now clear. Shame that this will shortly be concealed.

Sidewall #2 post feet were double cut, then the frame was squared and the braces were marked out and cut ready for fitting once the mortices to accept same have been cut into the wall posts & plate.

The brace stock was fashioned into 2 sidewall braces, cut to size with bare faced tenons ready for fitting into the wall post and plate mortices.

The way that accurate mark up and fitting of braces is achieved is by cutting full sized stock to the required profile from which material will be removed to fashion the bare faced tenon at each end.

Then by laying on and marking the tenon profile and the main post inner face mortice location by simultaneously scribing ensures that tenon shoulders, haunch and outward faces all end up in their correct respective position.

Scribing irregular timbers is something that is best demonstrated rather than described with words however developing a basic understanding of Boulean geometry principals (i.e. adding & subtracting shapes) is a useful first step.

Back on site the large ogee cross braces were first tried to fit in their respective long mortices before fully assembling same between the 2 main posts and tie beam.

Nice fit !

Now to drill & peg with 2 / 3 pegs.

We have now fettled & fitted the cross braces and door posts for cross frame #2.

The frame is now ready for sale and we welcome offers for this vernacular 3m x 4m box timber-framed building finished externally & internally to your requirement.

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The 2m larch log was quartered to make waney edged waist rails.

The rails are flat and full width on 2 good adjacent faces forming a perfect aris for framing.

This technique is known as squeezing the log !

The wane is positioned insitu on the inside and underside of the rails.