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2003 Eastern Conference Slide Show
with photos by Jim Rogers


first bent assembly
German Framing Workshop
  1. Student cutting a part of the frame.
  2. Student working on a mortise with a chisel and mallet.
  3. Same student working a joint for the frame.
  4. Same as #3.
  5. Layout tool
  6. Dennis Hambruch from Mafell tools, who was a student and brought some tools for the group to use.
  7. Wil Dancey cutting parts on his table saw.
  8. Full scale drawing with parts placed on it.
  9. The shed drawing used as a check list, one mark means the timber has been laid out with pencil line, the second mark means it's been cut and ready for fit up or assembly.
  10. Student transferring lines from the full scale drawing to the timbers.
  11. Cut parts laying on the full scale drawing.
  12. Parts on a pair of saw horses.
  13. Another pair of saw horses.
  14. Assembling the frame in the lobby
  15. A joint on the end of the building called the "Fish bone"
  16. A joint called the "Wild Man"
  17. Marcus talking about what topping the frame with a tree means to them, in Germany. And that each member that helped cut the frame gets a handkerchief from the tree.
  18. One of three toasts.
  19. Group of students and instructors gathering on the frame
  20. Group shot.