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See the build start to finish. Took me around 4 weeks give or take a few days to finish. https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/here-we-go-again-with-some-curves.138356/page-2#post-1604345

after a fairly long winded conversation and another site visit I finally got the arbour up. Me and a team of 3 other chaps got it up in two days, it was a private estate and working hours are permitted between 7:45 and 4:30, we arrived both days at half 9 so we got on well. My first problem...

Nope. No infills on the roof, it’s just a folly in someone’s garden.

The production side of it went well, However……….. I went to site to fit it and it became apparent we had a problem! 😬 Only 4 concrete pads were in place, around a fully finished slabbed area. The structure has 12 posts, and I was told I would be fixing to a concrete base, ready for slabbing...

It may look complicated and pretty involved foxbat, but when it’s broken down into small operations it’s not too much trouble.

Back onto finishing the roof now, it has 1-1/4” battens cut in around the rafters, all the way around in 4 tiers. The common rafters received a 3/4 mortice knocked out with a twin flute 19mm router bit and then squared up by hand. All marked off of the jig. My centre square makes sure...

The arches are now finished (pretty much) so here’s a quick run down on the finished article. I did a few short videos to better explain the fundamentals, much easier than explaining it 😀 Taking my original template for cracking the curves out, I drew the detail on so I could get accurate...

It’s now a simple task of marking, checking, setting, machining, checking again on we go…… This curve is scrap so i am not bothered about is not being pretty, it’s just to give me my settings for the 8 proper jobs. Not a million miles away for the first offer up. We shall see how it goes on...

Back up the top in and around the 4” to get 8 curves for arches with the template I got out at the very start. Template on, draw round etc etc your getting the drift here…… All 8 plus a spare ready to roll down to the bottom of the yard into the machine shop Band them, plane them and...

onto the 4 arches now that I rodded out at the start, variation on the same theme here really. The arches have to sit in a very specific place within the posts (dead centre) but the keystone is being used to attach the arches to the ring beam above so it took another little 1:1 drawing to...

Did you turn down the opportunity for a career in the trade or was it never even on the radar? I started my joinery apprenticeship when I was 18, did the 3 years advanced NVQ etc and have been doing it ever since. After 14 years I still have a lot to learn and that’s what makes it.

The hips are all cut in now and it all runs through just the ticket. The last photo of the 90 degree on the end of the hip rafter I put in alongside the photo below just to show how many tools it takes to make that 90!!

Yeah that’s rite that one had 4 rafters to a round boss, and two elliptical hoops to go over the top. Way more work that was, it took an age but jobs like that often do with me 😆

Onto tenoning the rafters now, the commons are first up. 40mm tenons going into the boss, and I have to cut a notch out of the roof plate to allow the seat cut to travel down the main beam. There is a few ways i could of done this but decided the most accurate was a 1:1 rod taking about 10...

Oh, the template is quite clearly on the left hand side 😂🤷‍♂️

Thanks for the kind words. It’s time to get a little more in depth with these rafters. I have 4 commons and 4 hips to get. It starts the same way as any curve work I do. Working from a set height and width that I rod out on MDF and my good friends the Trammels. This is double curved, so I need...

A very simple boss, around 200 square so two pieces of 4” laminated does the trick here Here’s the boss laminated, planed, 45ed, and ready for some mortices Morticing done, 7/8 chisel 8 moritces to revive 4 commons and 4 hips. To anyone who is interested, this a Wilson morticer that we...

Well, apparently my next job was casements, and that just went out the window (pun intended of course) when a chap wanted a building/arbour type folly ASAP, and I was the only one available at the time. It would seem just lately I’ve turned into a carpenter who prepares his own timber as opposed...