Don, recall back to your experience at hewing......a flared/fantailed post would be easier to create due to less wood needing to be removed. I like working with fantailed post and the English tying joint, the flare helps me with remembering which side is what, top, bottom and the total air castle. They were typical made from the butt log and that left the less tapered top section to be used for small dimension stock such as purling or girts.
Will, I don't get out enough, I am working on that, this coming November just before the conference I will be attending the daisy wheel work shop. My first start/experience was with Fox Maple and every year that has passed I have wandered away from that experience developing my own approach to framing, with a mix of this and that. The info here on the forum is some of the mix or tools I am picking up, you and the others contribute greatly, I am in a constant state of learning. Just your last post turns on new lights, that is helpful in its self.
