Brad,

It's be fun to have a roof framing geek sub-conference. Pencil, paper, compass and straightedge.

Here's a picture of Cody at the WorldSkills.

and here's a link to WorldSkills Leipzig 2013 Carpentry Competition pictures on Flickr.

Competition Photos

Sim

Roof Framing Geek Squad
Burlington Vermont 2013

Brad Morse said it would be fun to have a roof geek sub-conference at the Timber Framing Guild Conference in Burlington Vermont on August 7-11. It gave me an idea. We need to start a Roof Framing Geek Squad. The Roof Framing Geek Squad could have different levels of membership, 1-5. It would help engage the younger carpenters in the trade to learn more about roof framing. Maybe we could have Tim & Kyle write a rap song for the Roof Framing Geek Squad.

From an email to the TFG members this morning.

This foundation, the board defines four specific goals:
• Increase participatory membership
• Improve education programming
• Increase collaboration with other organizations
• Increase non-dues revenue

The Roof Framing Geek Squad could do all of the above.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/104523684702206530180/posts/ToBYwbSVMgU

Sim


Tim & Kyle

Nice Sim. I'll take one of those dorky t-shirts. I think we could count on Curtis Milton and Will Beemer to join the squad. Is Cody on of your guys? And if you get Tim and Kyle out this way, we may be able to convert more stick framers to playing with the big stuff.

And Ken, simple is absolutely good sometimes. I kind of like the rotated hip look. The birdsmouth cuts are still pretty tricky. And without all of those crazy triangles on Sim's t-shirt above, you'd be missing a lot of wild English (mostly cathedral) framing. What's amazing is that the same techniques of drawing those triangles on the shirt are the same as the triangles in say the York chapter house roof, or Ely's octagon. There's some serious power and potential in those triangles.

"There's some serious power and potential in those triangles."

No truer words have ever been spoken. Speaking about triangles in general. And I'm sure those on the shirt specifically.

Why not a draw off or something? Someone comes up with a roof problem. Everyone given basic tools. Problem is revealed and competitors work to solve it. Would be good fun for an audience. Especially if there was beer involved. And maybe a few prizes....

Hi,

I have made a new post on the OWG forum in the hope that we might gather other approaches taken to the measurement, layout and cutting of Hip Rafters.

I have added two comparable approaches taken by H Russell (2013) & P Russell (1991).

Regards

Ken Hume

Here's a couple of pictures of the completed task models from the WorldSkills 2013 Carpentry Competition.

Gold: Min Sung Kim, Korea

Silver: Stefan Oppliger, Switzerland

Bronze: Andreas Fichter, Germany

Cody Malloch from Canada finished 11th out of 13 competitors.

Mike,

Who drinks the beer? The winner or losers?

Sim

Brad,

The drawing on the tee shirt is just the French Compagnon Roof Framing Kernel. You've probably drawn it a 100 times. I'm assuming it's Timber Framing 101. I took it from Billy's JLC mag article and it's also in the green or red book from the timber framing guild.

http://www.raftertools.net/help/french_kernel.htm



We can get the tee shirts in red, white, blue or gray. Just need to decide on the color and tee shirt material. I had some made for my Rafter Tools app, but they sucked because of the quality of the tee shirt material. They were a one time use for me.
Here's link to pictures of the different colors of tee shirts.
http://www.roofframinggeeksquad.com/


Sim

Everyone!

Tony McGartland from the UK sent me this drawing of the task model from the WorldSkills in Germany. He said only 4 out of the 13 competitors completed the task model. Most of them only had two hours to build the dormer.

We should try to draw out the sloping dormer at the Roof Framing Geek Squad sub conference.

Sim