All,
A forum contributor over at JLC is going to be coming out west (Portland, OR) the first week of January to teach a class on eyebrow dormers. We are trying to put the word out so that the class size isn’t too small and it’ll help with the cost.
Here is alink that shows the course Billy Dillon teaches. http://www.heartwoodschool.com/coursefr.html
From Billy’s post over at JLC:
“Good, fun class with half the time drawing in class and the other half in the shop building models Here is a picture of a student and his model at the finish of class.
We cover many different forms of eyebrows and students will leave with a thorough understanding of curves as they relate to sloped planes. Several students have gone on to build their own with great success.”
I’m not sure who is coming so far, but I’m going to be there for sure. Please email me with any questions and we’ll try and get them answered.
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Tim
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Wish I could be there. But I live in IA.
I bumped because you never know how these threads get put on the shelf.
If it's good stuff they get hidden, if it's name calling then they seem to live forever. LOL
Rich
Sounds like a great oppurtunity. Was a great article in FHB on eyebrows about 20 years ago.
Enjoy
The best reward for a job well done is the opportunity to do another.
I'm looking forward to learing how to develop the curves. Billy sent me info on eyebrow dormers a year ago when I thought we'd get to do one. A lot of it was in German (which I took but don't speak), but I was kind of "getting it".
There is a lot of roof framing stuff I want to learn from him too that I can pick his brain one on one or one on 20 :-)
The eyebrows that Billy has sent me pictures of (that sound funny :-)) are timber framed, so the bell shaped valley has to be beveled. It is some really cool stuff. I think I've got the pictures somewhere. I'll find them and post them.
Sounds like a great class. I'm here in Portland and would be into taking it as well, schedule permitting.
Eyebrow dormers are one of those things I'd love to figure out how to do myself, but I'd love even more to be shown how to do it right before I try and go nuts on someone's house.
Paul
http://www.pauljohnsoncarpentry.com