Fun fine carpentry at Castlewood

This will eventually get tongue and groove sheathing, painted baby blue, and protect the entrance to the basement below.

 Cody and Syd got to do some production work! These handrails and pickets are all heart pine.

Modifying the rafters to notch around the shed roof bracket.

First pieces go in!

Syd's famous mill shop

The past week I've been lucky enough to get to build brackets for a shed roof overhang. It's been a challenging and fun project, and not something I get to do every day. Each element is let into the other, which I accomplished with a combination of power tools and hand tools. The hardest part was getting the angle right, but thanks to the good men over at thisiscarpentry.com, I had a little help with recalling my high school math. 

The inner angle is 39.5 degrees.

This inner angle is 50.5 degrees.

Each bracket will get a chamfer detail before installation. 

 The architect called for net 3" x 5 1/2" clear wester cedar. I purchased rough stock and laminated it to achieve these dimensions. Van Jester Woodwork provided the majority of the material, including the cute scroll detail you can see in the rafter tails below.

 To make the notches for the components of the brackets to lock into each other, I used more than a few fancy toys I have: an electric miter gauge, Japanese-style pull saw and Bosch palm router.

For my final act, she goes together with some inventive use of Titan Straps and regular old bar clamps. 

Two very different jobsites

On Monument Avenue in the Fan, the Chris-Nick-Mike super crew put the second floor back together again. We used reclaimed tongue and groove flooring from a building demolished on Leigh Street in Carver; we were lucky enough to be on site to salvage before demolition.  We've even got new plumbing run!

Out in Chesterfield, the even more amazing crew of Cody-Ben-Syd has repaired bug damage, worked on siding, and spent a lot of time doing a lot of math to build a cute little shed roof to protect a basement entrance. 

Custom millwork

Before and after subsill fabrication from salvaged heart pine. Made in Syd's now-famous Country Mill Shop. It's currently only famous with three people, but amongst us three, it's important.