Could anyone recommend a good text that would walk me through the process of learning compound joinery? I don’t do much now and am occassionally challenged to come up with a solution to a problem I haven’t previously encountered. Also, texts on the framing square and builder’s math would be helpful. Thanks
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I can't recommend a text but here are some websites dealing with theory:
Timber Framing and Joinery Math
Online Math Notes
Check out the Timber Framer's Guild. They have all kinds of material both online, books and courses that can help you with the practical aspects of joinery.
Lee Valley has a reprint booklet of a 1920's Audel's "How to Use the Steel Square" or some such title. It's short, only costs $3 or $4, and gets right to the point of things without alot of fluff as is so often the case with modern writing.
As it says in the booklet, the framing square (batteries not included) was the calculator for the carpenter of those days and it's amazing all the things it would help you do if you knew how.
>>"As it says in the booklet, the framing square (batteries not included) was the calculator for the carpenter of those days and it's amazing all the things it would help you do if you knew how.
You're reminding me of a classic story. Old timer in charge of framing the roof would hold up his framing square and pretend to use it as some sort of viewfinder to calculate the length of the next rafter in a hip roof. Would call out the dimension to the cut man. Couple of newbies on the job were absoultely amazed at his visual acuity. (of course he was looking at the rafter tables on the square and putting on the funniest show I've ever seen for the newbies -- for the rest of the whole job, whenever anyone hesitated to figure something, we'd hold up a framing square to eyeball it and lose it laughing so hard). Had so much fun on that job. A lot of the guys had incredible sense of humor.
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