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Fox Maple Timber Framing Workshop
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The frame was dedicated using green tea leaf as a roof tree. The plates were paper bark, very dense and heavy. Pulling up an albezia upper tie, a relatively light wood. The posts were scribe fight to stones. Ties and braces were scribe-fit. Lifting the parperbark plates, and driving them home. | |||||||||||||||||||
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The heavy lifting complete. Part of the local crew, Roots, John, Gerry, Wilbert and Kaiana. | |||||||||||||||||||
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The frame was 20'x30'. Layout was both scribe and square rule. The plates were all scarfed with gooseneck scarfs, all of which were of sound-tract quality (you need to be a student to understand what that means. It's a Jean-Claude Kielly thing, perfection and grace...known to all Fox Maple students). The materials were harvested primarily from the valley within a few hundred yards from the site. The paper bark came from the south side of the island. 99% of all building materials used on Kauai come from off island. This was a great lesson in how one can make beautiful structures by using only what is at hand. |
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