The Rafters Are Up!!!!!

Front view with the rafters all glued and ready for paint.

Right side view.

View from the back with the rafters painted. The square inside is the next level up all painted.

Left side view.

Front view.

It is coming along but sure is a lot of work. Learning quite a few tips on what I would do differently too. I would have put it all together before putting on the stones and then probably spray painted instead of brush painted everything and then did the stones. The stones made the wood warp and though the pictures don't really show it too much it isn't quite square. I measured twice and cut once (sometimes several times) and it still didn't come out as square as I would have liked it...trying to let go with some of my perfectionism isn't easy but I'm working on it. But because it isn't all square it meant each rafter piece had to be measured, cut and sanded to fit...not mass produced like it would have been in real life. Dad never would have built a building so out of square and mom would have said that's what lets the devil out. I'm going with mom's philosophy on this one...lol Just noticed that the date has the day-month-year notation rather than the month-day-year. I'll have to fix that on the camera. A photographer I'm not. Until next time...take care all.

All Connected

Instead of working on the rafters I decided to put everything together. I was going to make the front opening the size of the doors but then I wouldn't have a good square to make the main room on up to the top. Now I have to figure out what to do with the gap between the door and the walls but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. I am going to hinge the back so that I can reach in and arrange and rearrange the inside.

View from the back. I'll have plenty of room to get inside with this size of an opening.

The door comes in a frame and is currently just sitting there. As you can see I'll have to do a better job of centering as well as figure out some way of filling in the space between the posts and the doors.

View from the front with all the beams painted.

View from the front with the beams for the rafters glued in place and drying. I want to give them a good chance to dry before I start messing with them to measure the rafters. Figured I'd update you all while it is drying...besides my AC is in where the puter is (it got warm today) and the game is over (Mariners beat the Red Sox 7 to 6 in 11 innings.) Have a Happy Fourth of July all. I'll be home trying to keep Nannuk off my head while the fireworks go off.