below is one we did a few years ago, 36x50. I like a little less in the gambrel, but that's just me.
have fun!
Pete
What does that mean? To which part are you referring?
It's a Mansard roof by the way - the old Dutch word
Gambrel refers to a hipped gable roof. I put up a thread a while back on the history of the word 'Gambrel', and described how the term came to be mis-applied. Of course, it's anyone's prerogative to perpetuate that, but then we could also go back to calling 'oranges' correctly too: "noranges". The phrase ' an orange' is an example of "consonant migration", coming originally from 'a norange'.
Mind you, with orange/norange it's pretty easy to see how the change happened - with 'Gambrel' though it's like they took a thing called an 'orange' and started calling it a 'grapefruit'.
Well, so given that habit of speech usually wins out, fat chance of anything changing, so I realize I'm probably just shouting into the wind in terms of "Gambrel" too. Still it's worth trying to get the, er, word out.
Here's a picture from Thomas Corkhill's
The Complete Dictionary of Wood (1982):
