When I searched through old floppies to find the shots depicting my door closer problem, I found some others of my work I thought a few of you would enjoy.
This is a Gazeebo I built about four years ago after redoing the whole house.
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Excellence is its own reward!
Excellence is its own reward!
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
–Marcus Aurelius
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Piffin,
In picture #2 the post on the left looks about 1/32 out of plumb and those stairs must be warped because they almost look round ;-)
Nice work as usual, keep them coming.
Joe Carola
Edited 1/4/2003 12:13:56 AM ET by Framer
Are you sure about those stairs, Joe?
Maybe you need another look...
????? By Golly! They are kind of warped!.
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
PIffin,
Your amazing, Those stairs warped right into a circle. I'll bet you planned it that way ;-)
That one piece of grass on the right is 1/4" higher than the one on the left. I'll forgive you though.
Joe Carola
Thanks, Joe.
I'll have to get onto those sheep about the grass.
Every bit of that Gazeebo was red cedar except the PT floor joists and the cpper ball finial. It was something like $3800 just for the cedar..
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
Great Job Piffin- can you tell us how you made the curved piece that supports the lattice?Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Thanks Bob,
I played with the zoom and enhgancements some emore so maybe you can see some detail on that. I made the lattice panel from strips of red cedar and gorilla gluew and tacks at joints. It started out as a full panel something like three feet by three feet.
The curved head trim was cut from pieces of cedar 1x12 after laying out the pattern on a sheet of patternboard first. The design for this whole gazeebo came from a Mrs Imogen Taylor, Colfax and Fowler, London as far as shape goes, but the working drawings and details were up to me.
Anyway, the scrolled head trim was two layers, one in and one out, over the lattice, with a couple shims to let it all glue together. I did not fill the voids in the open lattice so it would drain water on through.
If I had known that it would be painted such a dark green, I would probably have used and exterior MDF like MEDEX to make it from to avoid chance of splitting wood but I chose grain carefully and it came out OK. It had already seen at least two winters before I took these pictures..
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
I just noticed that youmentioned, "supports" the lattice. The lattice itself is set with glue and brads into a dado in the 4x4 posts and the arch trim just stabilizes all the cut ends while making it all pretty.
If I remember right, there was about six hours in that entry header area I have just described.
The roof was also red cedar and I wove laps at the hips instead of using hip shingles. I added a line of Titebond ll to each joint in addition to the three penny fines to prevent curling..
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
Not that I was keeping track or anything, but I think it might have been in this thread that I hit the 5000 mark..
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius
Well, the gazebo looks like a nice, quiet fragrant place to hang out when one has reached a milestone.Jules Quaver for President 2004
Nice looking job Piffin.