I love learning new things! I looked dap up in a couple of good dictionaries I have but dictionary.com had the best definitons. Now I want to know the origin of "dap"!

Another term I have heard used for a cut accross a rafter where a perlin passes is a trench cut as opposed to a notch, which does not go all the way accross the piece.

Will, I do not know what FTX is.

I tried setting up slideshows of three CG barns (I call these bent style frames, too) but it was not going well and I need some sleep so I will try again in the next few days.

Jim

The closer you look the more you see.
"Heavy timber framing is not a lost art" Fred Hodgson, 1909