Timber Framers Guild Forums General Barns and Traditional Timberframing Joinery with an axe

The scoring axe came from "the japan woodworker" in california, and was not too expensive.
http://www.japanwoodworker.com/page.asp?content_id=10045

scoring axe

We got those braces joined and fitted today...

Nice work Mark. Are they part of a Hammer Beam?

These are part of the new door for my new shop

Will, I sent you a PM regarding this topic.

Thank YOU for the gig, working with that green hemlock was SUCH a treat can hardly wait to start shaping our massive cruck blades...

who would've thought that axes and adzes can be so......accurate and efficient

oooh. that cut nice.

that's a significant point for axe/adze work- wood selection. i spent yesterday trying to emulate mr. davidson's brace curve work on dry, knotty spruce that had been chain-saw hewn a year ago, and it was an exercise for sure. i was reminded of the reason i used a chainsaw to hew it in the first place.

green clear wood is best suited to edge tools. not that other kinds won't cut, but for the sheer pleasantness of chopping at a newly fallen tree, it's helpful to make that distinction between what may be necessary and what is just plain good.

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Hi, Some work done with the help of an adze but that I do not think of as joinery.

Greetings

Don Wagstaff

Along the lines of joinery with an axe, does anyone have any information about how mortising axes were used? It seems to me that they were used more on fence posts and small troughs rather than timber framing.

Thanks;
Jim

Hi,
there is a web site link referenced a time or two on this web site which would indicate that mortising axes were used primarily in timber framing. Though the tool here- a bisaiguë - is used without an extended wooden handle. This is simply the French version of a kreuzaxt. [email:http://www.en.charpentiers.culture.fr/tools/paulduboisstoolbox/thesecretsofatoolbox]http://www.en.charpentiers.culture.fr/tools/paulduboisstoolbox/thesecretsofatoolbox[/email]
Greetings

Don Wagstaff

Maybe fence posts would be good practice though.

Don Wagstaff