thru the front door – groin to arch to groin to arch View Image
gothic exit from a groin View Image gothic entrance to a groin View Image groin from the outside View Image entrance groin View Image ESCHER LIVES!!! View Image radius walls with a conical roof View Image mmm….. spirals r cool View Image
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Man, those are about the coolest things I have seen in a long time!!!
I love doing arches and the like. Just finished framing a set of cool ones for the basement of a mcmansion. Nothin like those, though!
Looks like a castle. How about some details on the building and it's occupants.
Can't wait.
I get paid to do carpentry. That makes me a professional.
If I work on my own house does that make me a DIY?
A little info on the structure and the owners...Location - tampa area in floridaOwner - A huge, high-end custom developer / home builder.approx sq footage - 90002 spirals - 1 inside the tower.
2 main vaulted groins and several smaller groin vaults.pretty much eleventy bazillion arches - most of them true ellipticals as well as many gothics.11' ceilings on the first level with many level changes throughout. Floating slab with first floor block.Conventional floor and roof trusses. It was a blast.Florida sucks for wages and weather, but we did some sweet framing down there.
Nice! That place has got the castle theme going on!
Nice work
I'm sending you my dentist bill for the damage my jaw incurred upon hitting the floor.
That is some very slick framing man.
All I can think about is wondering how the heck to put together a price on a job like that. What size crew? How long did it take? Can i ask what the price for a frame like that would be? I guess I just did. You don't have to answer that one if you don't want to, but I'd love to know.
Again... your work is stunning.
"Can i ask what the price for a frame like that would be?"High end customs in that area go 8 - 10 a square - labor and hardware.I did all the arch & vault work myself.
Large vault with wall arches and misc blocking/framing took 3 days.
Small vaults 1 per day.
5 - 6 arches per day depending upon size and complexity - obviously the true ellipticals take more time than the gothics which take more time than the half rounds.2 of us on the tower framing - 3 days.The rest of the stuff is pretty typical - setting trusses, wall framing etc.Anywhere up north I wouldn't be hesitant to drop a 6-8k price tag on a large single room vaulted groin.Now if i could only find a rocker who would tackle this kind of thing!My next grand adventure is to try and sell a large vault with exposed central timber supports with a stained wood surface. Where? Big Sky country or the resort towns of Colorado. Price tag? 12k - a bargain to any millionaire ski bum who wants to have the first vaulted groin dining room in the neighborhood :)I appreciate the "props" guys. As a log builder-framer-rennovation type of guy - it really means something when I get a nod from my peers.
very nice
i want that house!!! loved the Escher view, too.
pm
Cool house, you got a better picture of the outside?
And what part of the country you in? Fill out your profile! please
Doug
Holy Cow! I hope you don't mind, but I saved your pics and I will be emailing you if I ever get to do something like that :-)
Awesome work man, that is slick
OMFG. I'd pee myself to land something that fun. Where is it?
nvm just read Tampa
Still way cool. Forwarding this.
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
Edited 8/26/2005 11:17 pm ET by RW
Simply amazing!
If possible, keep feeding us pics as the project progresses. This could be a classic thread...destined for the keeper folder.
jt8
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." --Warren Buffett
That all going to be plastered or rocked?
"That all going to be plastered or rocked?"They rock it and finish with a heavy "skip coat" for that old world look.
It's not the best wall for this type of thing, but it ain't bad. I guess it's the easiest all the way around. Cool picts. I love working on stuff like this. I wish I had taken pictures from such past jobs.
beautiful! i saved the pix too, and mat try a miniature version in th e backyard for my son someday!
Wow! More curves than the Dallas Cowboy’s Cheerleaders and just as fun to look at.
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Keep posting. Very interesting and impressive.
thats some pretty cool work...
got any pictures of the moat?
I tried your photo gallery on gothics, groins and arches and the photos were X boxes. What am I doing wrong?
Keeping photos on the site takes memory, after a while, (1-2yrs.) they are no longer available.Beat it to fit / Paint it to match
I'm trying to see these picture and it seems to me something wrong with my ActiveX Control Shi...t or maybe it is Vista protecting me from it ,but like i said i can't open them.
The images didn't open for me either. Hmmm. No idea why.
Hopefully Luka, BillHartmann or someone else more knowledgeable of internet workings than I will show up and clarify the situation better
but what I think happens is the photos in question from the 2005 post might have just been a copy/paste from some type of site off the internet without having ever been saved and posted as an attachment.
Thus whenever the original internet site the photos were copied from has problems or closes for whatever reasons those copy/paste photos in the post exit with that original site source. A wonder of the internet.
The only way to assure longterm consistency with the duration of photos on here is to have the photo saved to your computer and then placed directly to your post as an attachment.
i tink dat what it be anyhoo
sobriety is the root cause of dementia.
An example of one of the photo's locations:
http://www.wildforest.com/image/gothic2.jpg
The 'whois' on http://www.wildforest.com/ is:
Registrant:
Make this info private
Wild Forest Artisans
232 NEWARK RD.
MT. VERNON, OH 43050
US
Domain Name: WILDFOREST.COM
Administrative Contact :
Perry, Harold
[email protected]
232 Newark Rd.
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
US
Phone: (740) 392-9133
Fax: (740) 392-9935
Technical Contact :
Network Solutions, LLC.
[email protected]
13861 Sunrise Valley Drive
Herndon, VA 20171
US
Phone: 1-888-642-9675
Fax: 571-434-4620
Record expires on 03-Jul-2008
Record created on 04-Jul-1997
Database last updated on 06-Oct-2006
jt8
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly.
I said 'I don't know.'"
-- Mark Twain
The page cannot be displayed
snorK* Now that's kinda funny right there.
sobriety is the root cause of dementia.
Actually, I thought I was going to be the hero of the day. Thought I'd saved those pics and was going to be able to re-attach them. THOUGHT FER SURE I'D saved 'em! But they weren't in the folder.
jt8
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly.
I said 'I don't know.'"
-- Mark Twain
ah, see what thought did...
I'm mean sheeeze, I've got pics like this from the same time frame.
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jt8
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly.
I said 'I don't know.'"
-- Mark Twain
Roar! Who's that funny looking clown with the towel on his head?
be oh is you gonna get yers...
sobriety is the root cause of dementia.
Who's that funny looking clown with the towel on his head?
Probably the same guy who paid FULL price for a one of those guides. :)
But I'm starting to think it must be a govt conspiracy that I don't have those pics. The FBI must have come in and zapped them. Wonder if they thought to alter my backup discs too? Otherwise I just don't understand why I haven't got them in my archive. I've got these two from Tim and Carl from about the same time frame.jt8
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly.
I said 'I don't know.'"
-- Mark Twain
dang man, now you HAVE to find them.
Bet you have them buried in there some where.
sobriety is the root cause of dementia.
You got it right.As John pointed out, the website the pics were on was wildmountain.comA DNS search for that domain brings up...Retrieving DNS records for wildforest.com...DNS servers
dns2.valueweb.com [207.36.173.5]
dns1.valueweb.com [207.36.172.5]DNS server returned an error: Queried domain does not exist
Yeh... That'll work.
They didn't open for me either. I have to see this project!!!