Making a Workshop Vacuum System
This afternoon, while we waited for the glue to dry on the rafters, we carried on with the construction of a new vacuum system. It is a non-mobile system, using…
Created Rafter Template and Jig Unit
Today, we set out to build the enormous template that will hold all the pieces that makes up a rafter element. The longest rafter we have to manufacture is 6.1metres…
Final Measuring Templates Created
Today, we carried on creating more measuring templates, this time, the 40 degrees and 45 degrees versions. The 40 degrees one is a pair as there are a small number…
Measuring Template and Scarf Joint Jig Created
Today, we set out to create several templates to help us measure the distance between the I-Beams up on the top of the roof and down to the walls. Every…
Birds Mouth Jig and Eve’s End of Rafter Template is Finally Created
Today, we resumed our creation efforts of a Birds Mouth and End of Eve template. We had a think overnight and we have decided that we could use the battery…
Bird’s Mouth Jig Much More Complex Than Originally Thought
This afternoon, we tackled the next tool and template we will need for the production of our roof rafters and this time, it was the Bird’s Mouth jig template. We…
Rafter Joint Squeezer Tool Created
We made our first tool today! It is a joint compressor for squeezing the webbing (the plywood layers) hard onto the flanges (89mm or 63mm CLS timber planks) and making…
Tidying Up and Planning the Next Stage of Work
We did some miscellaneous tasks around the building site this afternoon, at the same time, talking about what we needed in terms of tools, jigs and templates to help us…
Router Straight Cutter Ruined!
During the task of cutting the vertical slots into the cement panels on top of the walls, Shaun ruined the router cutter bit on a nail! He didn’t see it…
Router Machine Blew A Capacitor!
The Bosch router machine suddenly stopped working while cutting the window on the “O” wall of the Great Room. It blew the fuse in the plug back in the garage!…