To answer a few questions: My small build is coming along fine and it is my first timber framing experience. I'll get some pics up but first have more to do and may have a few questions here or there yet.

My chisel is a very nice one I think, a guild member selected it from the US and it has a bear stamped on it and a handle that is amazingly durable. I'd be nowhere without it.

I am originally from the US, but now I'm up in the mountains of Thailand in the middle of nowhere. A real timber frame like this is a real novelty here and so I describe it to the locals as a jigsaw puzzle style frame. Politics in Thailand? I just politely step aside and just don't go there smile