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Fold up sawhorse

MDFContracting, member | September 3rd, 20091 comment

My sawhorses are nice and compact, can be cut on, and are made from 100% salvaged material and scrap. The bevel angle for the leg cuts is 20 degrees, and they are roughly 26 inches in length. nbspI...

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California Drywall Patch

MDFContracting, member | September 2nd, 20098 comments

As a renovator, I often patch small holes in drywall and learned of this method from a great taper I work with. For round holes, (moving an octagon box) take the pilot bit out of your 4 inch...

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Northwest Indiana Framing

kmalcer, member | August 31st, 20091 comment

First two are the same home. Third and fourth pictures are the framing of a barrel ceiling and the fifth is the inside of framed lighthouse which was part of another home.

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The Jasper

Timuhler, member | August 26th, 20095 comments

This is actually the same Mascord floorplan as the other one I posted, but a different elevation. The roof pitches for this one were 8-12 & 10-12. We precut most of the roof and gang cut...

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Muirkirk I-Joist Roof

Timuhler, member | August 26th, 20092 comments

Early 2008, we started to get really slow. We ended up with 4 custom homes and this was the second one of the year. It was very fun to frame, especially the roof and the specialty...

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Muirkirk Hand Cut

Timuhler, member | August 25th, 20092 comments

This house just started out as a rambler with a huge roof that we chose to stick frame instead of truss. After we got it framed and saw how much attic there was, we framed that in. The...

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Bernie's House

Timuhler, member | August 24th, 20091 comment

We signed up this customer in the summer of 2007 as the market was starting to slow down. This is a Mascord design...

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Picket Fence

clarkatron, member | August 24th, 20092 comments

This is a fence my father and I recently completed for a small home here in Houston. The plan was to build a white picket fence that would more or less match the house's existing trim, but wouldnt...

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Cabinet with copper trim

UdoSchmidt, member | August 23rd, 20091 comment

This cabinet is a prototype incorporating hammered copper for trim and details

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Wine Cellar

kbur, member | August 20th, 20091 comment

12 by 18 wine cellar constructed in FL All redwwod First time I dealt with circular/radius crown molding

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Heavy Timber Cross-Gables & Lantern-Tower

dbert, member | August 20th, 20092 comments

After several years of production framing and finish carpentry, I had the opportunity to cut my teeth as a timber-wright on this incredible mountain-top compound. I worked full-time on this...

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Interior dome under trussed hip

warren6810, member | August 19th, 20093 comments

15000 sq ft 3 story home. Mostly trussed. Some girders 52 feet long, bolted together. Entry trusses raised up 48 inches to allow for dome framing underneath. Dome diameter is 12' with an undrhanging...

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Luxury Home

mjtz, member | August 17th, 20093 comments

I am a foreman for a framing subcontractor and this is a home my crew and I framed that was on display in a Luxury home tour. The roof was the most exciting...

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Craftsman Roof-A-Rama

dokshecky, member | August 17th, 2009

This roof had gables upon gables, then dormers upon dormers, and to make sure we didn't relax during a cold and snowy winter, one end finished with hips spinning out over a hexagon porch. We loved...

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Entertainment Center

d2spillers, member | August 17th, 2009

After the completion of our Room addition, we decided our 24' X 24' Family Room needed an Entertainment center. In a week we put this together from recycled lumber and wood. Even the handles and...

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Farmhouse renovation

loneframer, member | August 15th, 20092 comments

Started with a 1923 farmhouse, razed and rebuilt the existing roof, added 1400 square feet of additions, including an octagonal breakfast nook. Did framing, roofing, siding, replacement windows...

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Complex cut & stack from pre-cut package

Huck, member | August 14th, 20097 comments

As my crew and I took on more complex framing projects, I found the roof framing was bogging us down. Walls and ceilings would go up quickly, then things would grind to slow-mo at the...

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Intersecting Octagons

PhotoPete, member | August 14th, 20091 comment

Heavy Timbers and Intersecting Octagons created a very interesting floor plan for this house in the hills of Santa Cruz. The Open Beam Framing of the Octagons required steel straps to encircle the...

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Turning a pipe clamp into a tool that can push instead of just clamp

pizza, member | August 13th, 20091 comment

I was installing a new small porch floor onto the back of my Mom's rowhome after the old one had started to rot away badly. During the course of the installation, I needed a way to push a crooked...

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Sleepy Hollow Point

morgandesigns, member | August 13th, 20092 comments

This vacation house is sited out on point that projects into the lake and the house house bends around to capture views from every room.

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Natucket

Meidus, member | August 13th, 20091 comment

nantucket cliffside beach club, Galley beach

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Stair Square jig

MDFContracting, member | August 12th, 20091 comment

2 straight lengths of oak with a small shim glued between them. Holes drilled 1 1/2 inch on center with carriage bolts and wingnuts. A great, simple jig for laying out stairs...

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Big Island

McKinnon, member | August 12th, 20092 comments

Turtle back roof on Big Island of Hawaii.

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Hip Roof

dunctank, member | August 11th, 2009

The hand cut is a 3/12 slope. The common rafters are 3x8 rough fir, 24" on centre. The hips and valleys are 3x10 rough fir. We beveled our hips and valleys rather than dropping them because the...

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Piano Barn

chabest, member | August 11th, 20092 comments

I've done few roof projects and somehow found myself in this one. They tell me I've made a Ship's Knee. I guess it looks like one. Timber Framing is way more difficult, I've found. The valley rafter...

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House of 9 Gables in Alabama

Andy_Bell, member | August 11th, 2009

This is the house I built for my family. I did 90% of the work over 15 months. This is built in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Opelika, AL, now a historic district. On this site...

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Ferndale

loneframer, member | August 10th, 20091 comment

Roof is completely stick framed.

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Lagoon road.

loneframer, member | August 10th, 2009

This is another example of an all stick framed roof. The unique part of this roof is the center gable above the curved stairs. The gable is also curved as well as some of the walls on the other end...

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Kitchen Remodel

PDRSouthbay, member | August 10th, 2009

Kitchen remodel in San Jose, CA.

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The I-Beam Cabin: Gambrel Roof doubles storage and Dormers add light and space

BilljustBill, member | August 10th, 20091 comment

I-Beam Cabin is made from collecting materials from Home Center Box Stores for a full year. Just over 90% of these materials were "culled" lumber, returned materials, and damaged...

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Arkansas

loneframer, member | August 10th, 20093 comments

This roof has a lot going on. There were very few common rafters due to hips on the back corner of the house and all the little pop-ups in the front. The winding staircase offloads onto nine...

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Juniper Lane

loneframer, member | August 10th, 2009

This roof is all stick framed. Don't have any pics of the framing stage. The main roof is a 12/12, but behind the octagon on the right, the roof plane was a 10.5/12 so that a small triangle wouldnt...

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