Boy oh boy having a square piece of timber is soo important. I just encountered a situation where the beams I had were 3/16-5/16 out of square and man did it create a lot of work and heart ache.
Gaius, at 8:20, you mentioned that sometimes the connecting line might not connect due to the timber not being perfectly square. What would be the solution?
The solution depends on the cause and severity of the out-of-square issue and, perhaps, your own tolerance for imperfection. Often when working at the end of timbers as we are here, you will find snipe, caused by misalignment between the bed of the planer and the outfeed table. This typically results in the timber tipping down onto the outfeed table as it r its the planer, allowing the planer knives to take a deeper bite out of the timber. Snipe can often be seen with the naked eye or discovered when you place your square on the timber-a distinct dip in the timber that runs from the end of the timber some number of inches back along it. The good news is that you can usually just flip your square to the other, straight, side and proceed with layout. In other words, don’t register off the side that has snipe. If the issue is that the timber is simply unsquare, you can plane it square by reducing its overall size: you can always define a square within a polygon or parallelogram, but it will necessarily be smaller. This will require adjustment to the post as well, and is a partial transition from mill rule to square rule. If your lines miss by only a small amount (you can insert your definition of my purposefully vague ‘small amount’!), then you might choose to simply CONNECT the lines on the fourth corner rather than trying to square across the timber. There, I said it. But, if you do that, pick a side wisely; the top or bottom will both matter less and be less visible whereas the sides need to be square to each other. I’m living up to my reputation of verbosity with this response but hope there is something useful here.
Boy oh boy having a square piece of timber is soo important. I just encountered a situation where the beams I had were 3/16-5/16 out of square and man did it create a lot of work and heart ache.
Gaius, at 8:20, you mentioned that sometimes the connecting line might not connect due to the timber not being perfectly square. What would be the solution?
The solution depends on the cause and severity of the out-of-square issue and, perhaps, your own tolerance for imperfection. Often when working at the end of timbers as we are here, you will find snipe, caused by misalignment between the bed of the planer and the outfeed table. This typically results in the timber tipping down onto the outfeed table as it r its the planer, allowing the planer knives to take a deeper bite out of the timber. Snipe can often be seen with the naked eye or discovered when you place your square on the timber-a distinct dip in the timber that runs from the end of the timber some number of inches back along it. The good news is that you can usually just flip your square to the other, straight, side and proceed with layout. In other words, don’t register off the side that has snipe.
If the issue is that the timber is simply unsquare, you can plane it square by reducing its overall size: you can always define a square within a polygon or parallelogram, but it will necessarily be smaller. This will require adjustment to the post as well, and is a partial transition from mill rule to square rule.
If your lines miss by only a small amount (you can insert your definition of my purposefully vague ‘small amount’!), then you might choose to simply CONNECT the lines on the fourth corner rather than trying to square across the timber. There, I said it. But, if you do that, pick a side wisely; the top or bottom will both matter less and be less visible whereas the sides need to be square to each other. I’m living up to my reputation of verbosity with this response but hope there is something useful here.
and this is why my new (Douglas Fir) timber frame will last forever...with care and attention to it's aging ...as i age along with it.
We can’t wait to build your project Mary!
So this would mill rule style layout?
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Just guessing here, however, I think you may have done this a couple times.
Hahaha mainly just for TH-cam videos…