So this has nothing to do with the theater other then the fact it's being built in the shop. A fellow carp and good friend, Ian, has been working on a timber framed pergola using very old, hand hewn timbers found from old abandoned barns. The wood looks pretty amazing, but it also has all sorts of crazy knots, bows, and checks. He asked if I wanted to help him out this weekend, which gave me a chance to get a quick crash coarse in timber framing. The long and short of it is that it takes a lot of thought and a lot planning to make it work. Ian is amazing at it, I'm... well, I'm still learning.
