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just got a new job, its cool stuff.
I'm working at a timberframing company here called trailridge timberframing.
if youre unfarmiliar with timberframing, check out some of the completed projects, fuckin BAD ASS houses.
its all old world craftsmanship; mortise and tenon, everything is joined with walnut pins except to the foundation, plate, or what have you.
http://www.trailridgetimberframes.com/pastprojects.htm

my commute is SO cool. basically a bunch of twisty mountain roads that are relatively deserted and unpatrolled in the morning. beautiful scenery too as I round horsetooth reservoir.

That is pretty sweet. Its really unique. That would be way cooler to put together than a normal slap stick house, which I've done plenty of.


Hows the cost compared to a normal home?

really depends on a lot of things but in general, not cheap.

That's awesome Jeremy. Congrats.

My brother was a timberframer for around 8 years and I worked a bit in the business for a year or so when I was younger. My brother even built and raised a frame for Bobby Labaunte (sp?) out in AZ, he's even got a set of signed blueprints . It's really some impressive stuff. I really have a lot of respect for the hand hewing and the precision of the geometry of the complex joinery where you get 5 beams joining into a single vertical and such.

Is your shop still all hand tooling or have they gone to CNC milling?

Dan, it's expensive, really expensive. You can easily buy a nice complete house for the cost of just a small frame.

no cnc, a lot of saw router and chisel work. I wasnt even aware that they did that kind of thing, though it makes a lot of sense if youve got the capital and some really nice lumber.

When I make it big I'll have you guys build me a house, and I'll have Douglas Vincent design and build all furniture and doors. You should check out HIS website for some pimpin woodwork.

I worked on a job where we built one of those, it was sweet, we framed the huge house in a 13 hour day with only 5 guys. but its expensive-easy, but expensive.

Those look sweet! God I hate people with money, though! I'm too envious!

I used to build custom doors (some weren't really custom, but I still made 'em. ) back in '96-'00 when I lived in AZ. My best creation (though I didn't design it) was constructing three identical 10' arched double-hungs with a 2' sidelight all the way up and over the arch. Each one was 10' wide X 12' tall with the sidelight, and they were placed right next to one another on the same wall. I think that was the job we did for one of the AZ baseball players, Pagnazzi or something. I can't remember. It took a month straight to build each one, and we (my boss' wife and I ) had to build them outside because they wouldn't have fit through the garage door! Ahhhh, good times back then..........

Jeremy - Glad to hear it's still saws and chisels. I consider that hand tooling because just about all joints are being finished out by hand and the layouts are still by hand. I think you get better frames that way. As for CNC, my brother's company was just starting to get into it - do some searching on the German Hummdinger (sp?), and yes, that's really it's name, Germans.... You definately have to have stuff planed right and the machines calibrated just right.

ferrari494 - That's cool that you got to work on raising a frame, they're awesome. What's better than houses though is when you start doing frames for ampitheaters and manufacturing plants - http://www.chateaumorrisette.com/index. ... =Home_Page (my brother worked on that) .

But anyrate, congrats again Jeremy and glad to find another framer.

last week seriously kicked my ass, and I sprained my ankle a little for like the 100th time satrday so the coming week should be interesting.
BAC5.2 by the time you make it big there will be no way I'll still be doing this. but for sure trailridge would be a great way to go for a house.

Dang. I'll pull Doug out of retirement if I have to. His stuff is crazy.

doug has some true skill, and let me tell you custom furniture is NOT an easy business to succeed in.
I'm going to have my dad do a bunch of stuff for my house once I get one, he's a master in his own right and has several hundred board feet of rare hardwood from the 70's chilling in the basement.