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   billy5151 | Jan 16, 2009 05:00am | #1

    Robert,

   The Timber frame is the "modified "  Crux frame I biult as a workshop. I got the idea from a Crux Frame here in Maryland called  ( I beleive) Ocean Hall .  The work shop was way too small, 12 x 20 . The new one is a bit bigger ( but still too small ). Nice to be here, thanks,  Bill D.

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   ring | Jan 16, 2009 07:42am | #2

   Welcome, Billy. Just out of curiosity, what's the material cost (per sq. ft?)to do a roof of hand-split cedar shingles?

   Thanks for posting. My guess is that in this season you're better off in the shop or at the computer than sitting with a drawknife outside...

   David Ring

   http://www.touchwood.co.il/?id=1&lang=e

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   billy5151 | Jan 17, 2009 07:38pm | #9

   David,

   Wow!! that was some time ago. And I don't know about Cedar, we used old growth Cypress up from FL.  As I recall it was about $1,000.00 a ton (4'x4'dia chunk). That would yield about 4-500 random width shingles, $2.00/ea. So..figure 6"wide x 6' exposure 4=1 sqft.  comes to $8.00/sqft. Now when you get back up off the floor, that doesn't include labor. And trust me the first few 1000 or so are kinda fun, after that....no more fun. Haven't made too many recently because the salvaged logs are just getting too expensive. Riving out White Oak clapboard is about the same, you need almost better than veneer quality logs. But that's OK....been there done that: got the shirt; don't wanna do it no more.

   Thanks for the warm welcome.

   Bill Dalton

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   roc | Jan 16, 2009 08:13am | #3

   Hey Bill,

   Welcome !

   Nice resaw
   roc

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   forestgirl | Jan 16, 2009 08:15am | #4

   Welcome, Bill, what great pics!

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 
   
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   KiddervilleAcres | Jan 16, 2009 02:34pm | #5

   Hi Bill,

   Welcome to Knottsville.

   One thing though; ye gotta git rid o' them cushions on yer shavehorse.  Yer supposed to geeit splinters in ye butt on that thang!  Taint fair I tell ye.

   Regards,

   Bob @ Kidderville Acres

   A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!

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   WillGeorge | Jan 16, 2009 04:56pm | #6

   Welcome, you will find a lot of good information here, and a lot of different opinions.

   50/50 BS and if you can weed it out about 100 % true1

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   joinerswork | Jan 16, 2009 07:04pm | #7

   billy,

   Tho I haven't been to see the restored Mt Vernon, I have heard good things.  After all, anyplace that is distilling their own rye whiskey can't be all bad, right?

   Did you have a hand in the restoration of Madison's Montpelier, down the road in Orange county?

   Ray

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   billy5151 | Jan 17, 2009 07:55pm | #10

   Ray,

   Hi, and thank's for the welcome.

   No, didn't work on Montpelier. Just MT. Vernon and some others-- Jamestown, Yorktown. And a bunch of other smaller Museums around here. Last year we repaired the upper railing on the Cedar Point lighthouse re-located to the Calvert Marine Museum. Here's some pics. The one looking down to the water is of a mamma duck and her ducklings as they swam by. Now it's out to the shop ,went out earlier and got the fire going in the old wood cookstove.

   Bill D.

    

   Edited 1/17/2009 12:01 pm ET by billy5151

   
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   jimmy | Jan 18, 2009 07:29pm | #13

   Welcome Billy.  Are you located in Southern MD?  Jimmy

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   billy5151 | Jan 18, 2009 09:43pm | #14

   Hey Jimmy,

   Yea...It doesn't get any more southern than this. If ya go much further south, your in the Chesapeake Bay. I'm a stones' throw from Solomon Island. I was hoping to get some snow today. But it doesn't look that way. But I've got the stove cranking and making sawdust..  Bill D.

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   WillGeorge | Jan 18, 2009 11:15pm | #15

   Yea...It doesn't get any more southern than this.

   Are you in a boat in the gulf of Mexico?

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   billy5151 | Jan 19, 2009 05:06am | #17

   ?????

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   jimmy | Jan 19, 2009 10:33pm | #19

   I'm up in SS...Son goes to St Marys though.  Love it down there.  Jimmy

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   billy5151 | Jan 19, 2009 10:54pm | #20

   Jimmy,

   St Marys is Great college. Went there a few semesters myself (some 30 yrs ago). Have taken the tour thru Historic St. Maries City. This past year  they got the roof on and (I belive) windows in the Chapel site. I hope to get some inside work there later. Worked on some of the reconstructed  buildings there and got my veins filled with "wood lust". Learned alot from a great group of woodworkers. I was pretty green and thank God they had the patience of Job. Neat experience had to most of the work with period tools circa 1640's.

   Bill

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   Thorvald | Jan 17, 2009 07:18am | #8

   Welcome.  Great pics - except the one with the pit saw made my back hurt. 

   Verne

   If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to cut it up and make something with it . . . what a waste!

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   billy5151 | Jan 17, 2009 08:00pm | #11

   Verne,

   Hi, thanks for the welcome!!

   Yea, I have the pit-saws hung in the shop now days. Not much call for pit-sawn lumber anymore. But on the bright side, when we did more of it, we were all in better shape. No Richard Simmons work-out tapes here.

   Thanks again.

   Bill D.

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   Thorvald | Jan 18, 2009 12:04am | #12

   It's hard for me to say who had it worse with one of those vertical miserywhips, having never suffered the experience myself, but I can't imagine that either position was very pleasant.Verne

   If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to cut it up and make something with it . . . what a waste!<!----><!----><!---->

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   WillGeorge | Jan 18, 2009 11:25pm | #16

   Do them hollow logs help in the splitting process?

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   billy5151 | Jan 19, 2009 05:10am | #18

   yes ,.... actually ; because I don't use the heart, because of the radius. Because cypress shingles are split tangentially not radially,like you would for oak.Bill D.