Short Weekly Timber Frame Update Videos

We attempt to keep our clients up to date about what is happening with their timber frames. We send our clients weekly short videos of what has gone on in the shop that week...usually on Friday morning.
Timber Frame House for Naples, NY  (week one)
Timber Frame Home for Naples, NY  (week two)
We find this especially helpful for those who can not just drop in for a visit. These are two examples of short video we sent out recently.

Compound Joinery - Timber Frame Design Office

 CAD drawing of a compound joinery timber frame room with crossed hammerbeams.

Compound joinery timber frame - handcrafted from Eastern White Pine.
Compound joinery timber frame room with crossed hammer beams.


There are NO metal clamps or fastners in the timber frame itself. The different parts of the timber frame are held together with octagonal wooded pegs. The SIP roof panels are of course secured with long screws.

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Compound Joinery - Timber Frame Cooking Porch



  


The top section of the octagonal timber frame cooking porch being moved into place with the help the crane. This timber frame is of Oak.






The men pictured are approximately 5'10" tall.

Octagonal timber frame cooking porch as viewed through the trophy room. This home is located in Nashville, TN.









 









Timber Frame Sign for Mikoto Restaurant



pre mortising


Cabin Creek Timber Frames was asked by Metcon Inc of Pembrook, NC to hand craft this magnificent sign for the new Mikoto Restaurant at Westgate Plaza, 7980 Raeford, RD. Fayetteville, NC.

It is estimated that the sign weighs 8,500 lbs. It is 22 ft tall by 22 ft wide at the base. The posts are 24 in diameter. The cypress trees that make up the posts are at least 200 years old.

Click (HERE) to watch the video: it shows  you how the timber frame sign was crafted; from the time the cypress arrived in the beamery  to it's re-assembled on site at 7980 Raeford Rd.,   Fayetteville, NC.

We hope you enjoy the video. The music on the video is from the album titled: Flower Dance: Japanese Folk Melodies. The music may be purchased from http://www.amazon.com/.

post are 24 inches in diameter and 22 ft tall

Morse Architecture

Jeffrey Morse AIA

Metcon, Inc.

http://www.metconnc.com/

CabinCreek Timber Frames

http://www.cabincrektimberframes.com/



John Booker, Joe Bell and Jeremy Ford
 are putting the finishing details on the timber frame sign.



Chris Jones, John Booker, Jeremy Ford, Joe Bell



In honor of Mardi Gras "The Cabildo", Louisana's oldest timber frame.




the Cabildo, doesn't LOOK like a timber frame does it?

 

entry to the Cabildo

To read more about the hISTORY of this amazing building click here.

plaque to the right of the entry - gives you a hint to the buildings history

king post truss of cypress, the photo doesn't do justice to the massiveness of the frame

Cypress for a sign we will be handcrafting this week

Cypress wood order for a timber frame sign we will be handcrafting here at the beamery this week

This cypress log is 23 inches in diameter at the top and 27 inches in diameter at its bottom.

Second cypress log for post of sign.

Cypress log viewed from side.

Rough sawn cypress flitches prior to being run through the planner.

Cypress flitch after being  run through our planner here at the beamery.

To give you an idea of scale of these timbers John (pictured far right) is 6'1" and approximately 170 lbs.

Jeremy (pictured of the small forklift) is getting ready to feed the cypress flitch through the planner.

Cypress flitch being fed into the planner.

Cypress flitch being feed into the planner.

Rough sawn cypress flitches prior to being feed into the planner.

The picture below demonstrate how collar ties and knee braces are prepared prior to being scribbed into these two bents of eastern white pine. Once finished this timber frame structure will be a 16ft by 16ft structure that could be used as a small patio, a cooking porch, or a wonderful whimsical gazebo or pavilion.

Black walnut collar tie being prepared for being scribed into the western white pine bent.

Black walnut collar tie and knee braces atop a bent of eastern white pine prior to being scribed and set into place.

Black walnut knee brace to be scribed into a bent of eastern white pine.

Walnut knee braces already in place in this bent of eastern white pine.

The two bents of this eastern whit pine 16' x 16' timber frame porch.
Please note that the two bents are NOT the same, adding character and charm to this small structure.