Hewing Curvy Timbers for Japanese Timber Frame @MrChickadee

Mr. Chickadee | Hewing Curvy Timbers for Japanese Timber Frame @MrChickadee | Uploaded April 2019 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
This short video shows the rough preparation of a curvy roofing timber for our upcoming Japanese timber frame this fall. Sourwood is a naturally curvaceous tree having very hard wood with interlocking grain.

For these roofing timbers, a very fast and organic hewing is done, not to a line, but just to designate four planes and the corners are also removed leaving an octagon like log.

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Felling, transporting and hewing 27 foot poplar top plate

Making a Japanese timber frame parallel chord truss with curvy timbers.

Finding, restoring and sharpening a traditional handplane

Forging decorative hinges for our blacksmith shop

Our timber frame cabin Part 1: Preparing a framing chisel

Our Timber frame cabin part X: Timber frame top plates

$Hand made double insulated wooden casement windows for our timber frame. We prefer to make our own double insulated windows over the modern type for many reasons. The concept of an insulated air space between sheets of glass is the same, except rather than a tiny space filled with argon gass, we have two seperate windows with a larger air gap between them. This is a traditional Swedish design and has been tested to hold similar R values to modern windows by the Swedes. Oh, and at a fraction of the cost, they are also easily repairable should there be the need, unlike modern gasketed windows. Research paper from Sweden: https://byggnadsvard.se/gamla-fonster-kan-bli-battre-an-nya/ Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/mrchickadee Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mr_chickadee1/ My website : https://mrchickadee.com/ #mrchickadee$