Hi Jon,
I'd like to explore the options for a more traditional approach.
Think I got lost from the beginning Jon...so I have more questions than being helpful (yet...)
Other than lashing members together with the countless bends, hitches, splices, etc, which is perhaps the oldest "joinery method," I can't think of a family of connecting modalities more traditional and ancient than mortise and tenon. Next would be "notching forms" (i.e gains, laps, scarf/splice, etc)
I know I am missing something here...apologies.
...is there anyone out there detailing the necessary methods for attaching roundwood timbers to one another?
Especially regarding scribing the form of one timber onto the other.
Log work has extensive methods in this area, a lot of which is around lapping and scarfing joints, and of course mortise and tenon. Examininging these will go for into "scribing methods." Then there is all the templating and lofting methods to work in concert with these.
A number of Artisan are working in "bamboo"...and...some of this is still employing "lashing methods" over metal hardware. Haukafa/Lalava of Pacific area indigenous peoples, et al, are just some of the countless forms and styles of lashing as a joinery method. Square, tripod, shear, round, and diagonal modalities are just some.
If not, I'll just finish up with some slightly awkward looking reductions around my joints.
"Reductions"...???...do you mean joint housings or something else?
Regards,
j
