https://www.kiseibuild.com/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2019-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568172332951-1G02462SBTNBXFW48XTK/IMG_0497.JPG SMALL - Horses - Douglas Fir The first class from Dale introduced me to the basic tools and center-line layout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568172332951-1G02462SBTNBXFW48XTK/IMG_0497.JPG SMALL - Horses - Douglas Fir The first class from Dale introduced me to the basic tools and center-line layout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568172340793-91P1CPTV7S2S3VBM0WOW/IMG_0498.JPG SMALL - Through tenons The legs and stretcher were laid out for a draw bore when the pegs were installed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568172338811-56JSYZV5MD0XIOQ833SB/IMG_0499.JPG SMALL - Completed Within a week of returning home from that first five day class I had my horses complete and have used them ever since. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637368651-MNIN92R2ED39ECZ0DB50/IMG_0819.JPG SMALL - Collier Condo Gate - Western Red Cedar Another project with through tenons, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637401106-E5ZO59B345AKQXC2F5EB/IMG_0866.JPG SMALL - Wedged Through Tenons Only the wedges are glued then driven in to secure the assembly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637398473-VKN5Z3ESF2SER2KYDBOS/IMG_0868.JPG SMALL - Installed Shortly after, the gate was stained to match the existing structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637544466-EFY6WN3N8XUNM9V258JN/IMG_3864.JPG SMALL - Miller Screen/Storm Door - Douglas Fir Draw bored mitered and stopped tenons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637550897-9JP8UPNP6BEOF3WIARBE/IMG_3866.JPG SMALL - Test Fit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637561355-5KK9QVQUNB6TNGQ386B9/IMG_3873.JPG SMALL - Assembly The tenons were glued and pegged. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637559936-KAR0RNDE6UWKD3C69VD3/IMG_3886.JPG SMALL - Window Frame Assembly I did glue the bridle joints at the corners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637564839-WLXO0M1ZMHWSG6OL8S73/rWPxiTvpSkq7wt6E30V%2BOg.jpg SMALL - Warm Weather https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637580560-6OD6P3C2OYGBORKCF0DY/nkDi4a%25pSrqHhKoGPNYGWA.jpg SMALL - Cold Weather https://www.kiseibuild.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2019-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568172266825-265WA9VJ4SIFM2WF2NV6/IMG_0686.JPG TRAINING - Workshop #2 - Entry Gate, Ashland OR. Facilitated by Econest owner Robert Laporte the second class with Dale was a team build of an entry gate onto the property. Here Robert and I prepare a sub-post that attaches to one of the main gate posts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568172266825-265WA9VJ4SIFM2WF2NV6/IMG_0686.JPG TRAINING - Workshop #2 - Entry Gate, Ashland OR. Facilitated by Econest owner Robert Laporte the second class with Dale was a team build of an entry gate onto the property. Here Robert and I prepare a sub-post that attaches to one of the main gate posts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568172272396-B3E2WCVDPJXYQDIA2GDK/IMG_0703.JPG TRAINING - Double Top Beam The double top beam sandwiches the purlin supports. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568172281476-0P6KWDVZNS50KGJULPTA/IMG_0708.JPG TRAINING - A Great Project Dales classes start with three days of tool set up and sharpening, the following three or four days we got it to this point and we were all very proud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637728376-3A1HA1K8JE607Q9OO04R/P9031553.JPG TRAINING - Audited Class - Chinese Gate, Snohomish A very big Chinese designed gate, this time cut out of recently felled western red Cedar trees mostly from the property. And the weather was very wet, notice the tarp overhead. Dale answering my questions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637735970-EIUUSCYPAN436JDAW8MW/IMG_0756.JPG TRAINING - Keyed Locking Scarf Joint Dale did the lay out and I did the cut out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637740669-1COEP60B0JK92DM7CXZS/IMG_0758.JPG TRAINING - Success For a first time and that the material had some checking in the area it turned out quite well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637766814-JXDR0V3TZPHFCPXOBXCK/IMG_0771.JPG TRAINING - Ridge Beam The scarf joint was needed to add length to the ridge beam, which when finished was faceted into an octagon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637768611-XCUSEDHPHI2F409EVDK6/IMG_0775.JPG TRAINING - Too Big A Project After more then a week of work this is how the project looked when I had to return home to my own project. It was decided that bigger equipment would be the safest route to assemble the rest of the parts we had prepared during the class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637781374-PAWPNMT4KMK8BNMSZF2K/IMG_0089.JPG TRAINING - Bainbridge Island - Bight Hired on with Dale to help assemble and install some large structural Alaskan Yellow Cedar trusses that he and his aprentice cutout and finished. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568672488981-TFOC8KNHACVXFNVDMKAD/IMG_0086.JPG TRAINING - Center Of The Room These are the lower support sections of the trusses in the middle of the room assembled and ready for a lift. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637780921-4XOMLQ42FH9P3G7S50TQ/IMG_0111.JPG TRAINING - Standing Tall Putting the pieces together up in the air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637852870-9ZE5PZV1OR71HFTH8NF1/IMG_0912.JPG TRAINING - Portland Japanese Garden - Port Orford Cedar Another job with Dale, this time architectural elements in two of the new buildings at the garden. I got in on some finish planing for the “curtain” wall alongside the stairs in the learning center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637842634-P9Z2FR45S8CT2NMJDJCJ/IMG_0914.JPG TRAINING - The "Curtain" The assembly had an upper and lower section of groups approximately four foot wide. Here they are ready to be planed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637852727-U58HTFPI7QOV5VTYECGN/IMG_0924.JPG TRAINING - Not A Bad Shaving https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637867258-I3TYDQAZ9LWZ90B2O5IL/IMG_0939.JPG TRAINING - How Many Boards? I forget, but I did create a few nice piles of shavings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637929004-JNTIFG0BMB17PNO6KZY5/IMG_1065.JPG TRAINING - Tuning It On Site This particular section was fit to its top beam on site before installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637937133-FFWGBUA3U018Z7KORZTI/IMG_1089.JPG TRAINING - The Cafetria Ceiling A detail of how the ceiling boards were fastened to allow movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568637936508-4IEW6W83DHJ7HN64L56S/IMG_1091.JPG TRAINING - Pyramid Ceiling Three of the four faces of the ceiling are wood panels attached by fixed keyed brackets to a frame suspended from the metal above. The miter joints between the boards from the bottom up to the apex look as tight as the day we installed them. https://www.kiseibuild.com/new-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2019-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568638354245-8I6EC2ORLCYMXQP3POON/IMG_0439.JPG LARGE - Wheeler Addition Final Touches - Douglas Fir Hand planed the wood really shines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568638354245-8I6EC2ORLCYMXQP3POON/IMG_0439.JPG LARGE - Wheeler Addition Final Touches - Douglas Fir Hand planed the wood really shines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568638369104-V63HSUROYV0FH6BL2LOT/IMG_0444.JPG LARGE - Ridge Beam I’ll just nest the rafters into these little pockets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568638365960-CBDVRC1IB0U0769PWS7X/IMG_0455.JPG LARGE - Easy Up With the help of two friends we got the frame up and in place in short order. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568638375970-YXA03QE7WE9PTQDFTQTH/IMG_0467.JPG LARGE - Rafters That took most of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568638391707-HQLORT861VEO87TS8PO5/IMG_0501.JPG LARGE - The Ceiling Looks really nice hanging off the board and batten siding I put on the new addition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568638387952-K7533ED595CXU0FJGQNQ/IMG_0502.JPG LARGE - Up Sitting on the ground level deck the ceiling is quite pleasing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568638456485-KSCCBVGSVJXAV22IMX12/%2BuIl79V0Qu%2BxDoY8UY5YTA.jpg LARGE - Marine View Drive - Alaskan Yellow Cedar Months of preparation here in Montana came together in a very positive way. The project, build the fence that Dale designed. The year earlier he built new, the gate that he originally built back in 1985 after returning from Japan. The new gates main change was from red cedar to yellow. I can work yellow cedar, so after much back and forth I placed the order and waited. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568638446271-80QSS5V1TWUZ87LMCTOA/r84inSu8S8yrlGW117sV%2BA.jpg LARGE - About That Atlas Cedar The first post landed, by design, directly on the trunk of the Atlas Cedar tree that was planted when the home was originally built. The solution came by collaborating with my friend and blacksmith Jeffrey Funk. Dale living in Seattle was able to design a bridge, built of wrought iron by Jeffrey, that would be cast into two granite rocks and carry the post above the trunk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d785e72c839f7761c0b5809/1568638455567-2UODU2CARPP16YDXYJZK/uuOFZjd3TtCaUpw99juDrg.jpg LARGE - Post #2 The second post would then be scribed to the back rock that the bridge was cast into. 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