In this first video we walk through the process of preparing the sill plates. These are what make up the base of the frame and upon which we will build the entire structure. Get the Sketchup document here: jesseschutt.gu...
Jesse I’m really excited about this series. This is already more helpful than other videos I’ve found on RU-vid. Your format and instruction is perfect.
Great vid. I hope to assemble a wooden carport I bought later this month. Yes, the joints etc have been cut out in factory so I need only assemble (hopefully can manage alone) but I plan next year to afdyon a lean to shed to it and that I will do fully with joints etc. One of tge nicest smells is tge smell of wood being cut or planed😊
Great series. Those chain mortisers are expensive. I was considering getting Milwaukee's little 6" pruning chainsaw and McGyvering a jig/clamp for deep mortises.
This is really helpful. I'm hoping to do a small project like this in the summer -- to learn the basics of timber framing. How do you source your timbers? Do they need to be kiln dried? What is the approximate cost for timbers? Maybe an idea for another video at some point :)
Hi Dave - thanks for the comment! I have milled all the timbers using my Logosol chainsaw mill. A local organization often needs trees taken down and I get to use the timber. None of them are kiln dried, in fact timber framing works well with green wood. It's easier to work that way. Take care!
I have a good bit of the floor joist segment shot so I'd guess early next week? Maybe Sunday afternoon for that one, and then just as fast as I can crank out the rest. Hoping for a minimum of 1 per week.
Great stuff, wish I'd had this series when I started my pavilion build (and a copy of Learn to Timber Frame, which I think outlines a very similar build to yours). I would have probably done a through-tenon on the sill joints like you have, instead I did a cross-lap. I don't think it's going to matter in the end, the beams are well-supported at the corners and I did want the beams to slightly extend beyond the corners just for, I dunno, to put plants on or something :D. For the joists I did a strengthened halving, which is also basically a half-lap because it seemed a bit easier (though it was still a heck of a job). I kind of liked that because I could then extend the joists beyond the sill as well and thus get a little bit more floor space and get a cool kind of floating effect - here's how that looks sort of half-finished i.imgur.com/VLeUGnZ.jpeg - I'm pretty much making it up as I go along! But for the rest of my build I will definitely be watching all your vids from this series first.
Hi! These are 6x6's but are very likely oversized. You could use 5x5's and maybe even 4x4's (but the design might have to change to six posts instead of the 4 I'm using.)
