Hi gang;

Ken Hume drew our attention to a Carpenter's Fellowship forum question about French assembly mark in another thread. I have since learned several new things about French assembly marks and posted links to illustrations which show these marks in that forum. I thought I would share a link to that thread and ask anyone in this forum who may be able to expand on French marks to do so.

Has anyone seen marks like these in North America?

http://www.carpentersfellowship.co.uk/index.php?page=/home.php

To get to the discussion in the CF forum you may also have to also click on the following links:
discussion forum
timber framing
unusual joinery in Vermont

Thanks;
Jim

Hi Jim et all,

or click on this link :-

http://www.carpentersfellowship.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=480&st=0&gopid=2523&

to go directly to the topic.

Regards

Ken Hume

Hello,
And yet another place to click or klick http://www.charpentiers.culture.fr/lesoutils/outilsdetracage/rainettecrayonettraceret for wanted terms, images, descriptions and context. I always find it a helpful place to start when stumped by perplexing cross cultural mysteries.

Greetings,

Don Wagstaff

Can't say much about French marks,

but a google search of Abbundzeichen may be interesting. That is the German term for Carpenter's marks, and they can get pretty complicated at times!

Hello,

Not all such markings will be associated with assembly work in the strict sense. Some, for example represent the signiture of the laborer or workshop where the joinery was cut, assembled and dissembled for transport to the building site. It's not unthinkable that some would label individual parts but more commonly the markings are part of a system of matching two non interchangeable parts of a joint in a complex construction.There are also marks associated with felling and transport though these don't always show up on the finished timbers.

Recently attaching an image has become a problem for me on this web site. I wonder if something structurally has been altered or if I am the only one experiencing this.

Greetings,

Don Wagstaff