We were asked to fashion this pendant into a perfect circle which we accomplished by rigging up a chain saw lathe of sorts. Sand paper and some elbow grease did the rest. These sorts of ornamentations offer all sorts of opportunities in timber frame detailing. When our plans call for a curved beam, we can either use naturally curved timbers or create a curve timber ourselves. Here, we milled a timber into thin strips, reassembled it on a jig to create the desired curve, and then glued it into its permanent shape.
Fast work is required.
Funky trusses We engineer and build all sorts of trusses. Some of these truss systems get pretty darned unique. The scarf joint is used to make longer timbers out of short ones by splicing them together. Cutting and fitting a scarf joint is painstaking work because there is such a large surface area in the joint. Usually it requires futzing with several trial fits.