Oak Timber frame (and formally a Diminished stile door (markup and cutting the diminished part?))

[toolsntat]

Wonderful and your mystery timber looks a lot like Meranti.
Cheers, Andy

 

[Mike G]

Great stuff, and some fun little joints.

I'm not keen on the floor, if I'm blunt. I think a simple boarded floor would have been more appropriate for the style of the building. Fancy parquet was more a Victorian thing, whereas your frame places the building's ancestry a couple of centuries earlier. But, ho hum......your building, your choice.

I'm curious what this building is going to be used for.

 

[AJB Temple]

I know what Mike means about the floor mismatch. But really the whole building is a fusion of periods and styles. So bring it on. We would all do something different. I did a Herringbone parquet once in an apartment I bought in London. That cured me.

 

[Planeiron]

Great stuff, and some fun little joints.

I'm not keen on the floor, if I'm blunt. I think a simple boarded floor would have been more appropriate for the style of the building. Fancy parquet was more a Victorian thing, whereas your frame places the building's ancestry a couple of centuries earlier. But, ho hum......your building, your choice.

I'm curious what this building is going to be used for.

Ah yes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the floor is stunning but take you point regarding its strictly anachronistic quality. Some of the choices in this build are dictated by what is available to me and also just the challenge in going something new to me. While I had intended using the saw fallings for flooring, I just didn't have enough and couldn't justify buying more especially while I had this flooring reclaimed from our old kitchen. There's the little loft flooring from what I had of the fallings and what could've been the floor. Would've been a much quicker job to be sure.



This was all hand scrub planed. I also put a couple of "easter eggs" in a couple of boards that very few would notice. The other thing I enjoy is paving in brick and stone so I carved this fan pattern in, a common pattern when laying setts. These just wouldn't take a plane as they are completely bonkers out of square so using a chisel was much easier.

 

[Planeiron]

Some work outside today. Though not wood work, related to the timber frame. I've had the drain pipes propped up at an angle while working on other things. Had intended running setts around the perimeter to form a border, probably for bulbs or something easy. Part of these will be set in more deeply on one side to form a channel.



After working out the various depths for stone, bedding and setts I dug the trench with a deeper central section for the drainage channel



Then the stones go in and are tamped tight. I dry run the setts for tricky parts like this. Then bedded on coarse sand with a little cement mixed. Very light mix so it won't set rock solid. Then more stones tamped for the more superficial setts. Then all haunched.

 

[Cabinetman]

Ok Dave, you’ve got me, what are saw fallings? Google has no idea.
That carving is really nice, subtle and restrained.

 

[Planeiron]

Thanks. Saw fallings are literally what falls off the bandsaw when rough dimensioning timber in the sawmill. At least that's the term my local sawyer uses. So it might be odd widths and depths.