Timber Frame Rafter Seat Housing Joinery
This is an exploded view of a rafter foot and seat on a plate – a rafter seat housing. Here, you can see the plate with the post below. The rafter with a notch cut into the back side of …
This is an exploded view of a rafter foot and seat on a plate – a rafter seat housing. Here, you can see the plate with the post below. The rafter with a notch cut into the back side of …
This is a view of a step lap rafter seat on an 8×8 plate. The joint gets its name as the rafter laps over the plate to create an overhang for shedding rain water off the roof away from the …
This Dutch barn style through tenon is called an Anchor beam.Here is an exploded view of the tenon and post.Sometimes, it is held in with pegs only; sometimes, it has wedges on the outside of the post, and sometimes, it …
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This is an exploded view of a 2″ knee brace tenon and mortise for a knee brace where it connects to a tie beam.The tie beam was rotated so that you could see into the mortise.The layout is 2″ off …
This is an exploded view of a brace tenon and its mortise. This brace is centered on the tie beam (which has been rotated so you can see into the mortise.The brace tenon is centered on the brace.This type of …
This is an exploded view of a 3″x 5″ knee brace tenon and mortise, with a tenon layout of 1 1/2″ off the face and 1 1/2″ thick, and its mortise in a tie beam.The peg is 3/4″ in diameter, …
This is an exploded view of a standard tie beam to post tenon with housing in the post and two pegs.
Post Stub Tenon Detail – This is an exploded view of a post’s stub tenon and mortise from a bent in the middle of the sill.Here, you can see that the tenon is flush with the face of the post …
This exploded view is of a post’s bottom stub tenon that is at the end of the sill. The tenon is 2″ off the outside face, 2″ thick, and 2″ long. Due to the fact that it is at the …