Thank you. I have a timber framing book by Jack Sobon which has been very helpful. I guess I'm not trying to actually splice a beam but rather join two beams over a post and am looking for the easiest way to do it. I was going to do a lap joint in the beams over each post. I was looking for a diagram or measuremnent of where the joint placement should be. I know I should have each beam resting on the post but how many inches of beam should be supported by the post? If I just butted them up together I would have 3" of each beam on a post. With a lap joint how big should the laps be? Should each lap be 3"? I hope this isn't written to be too confusing?