That’s mine and Dave’s gable plate up there, fitting nicely into the half lap joint on the sidewall plate Bob and his son Mike made. First thing we did this morning was test fit those so we can now taper the larger sidewall plate down to fit snugly with the rounded part of the gable. I was really pleased that it fit so well on the first attempt, without any adjustments at all.

After we scribed out what adjustments need to be made to the round bits, we helped Ryan try and make sense of the log Silvio (his partner) started yesterday. Just last night I was telling a beautiful lady about how much he gets on my nerves, and how he insists on doing everything the way he thinks it should be done, rather than how we were just taught to do it. Silvio left this morning after James taught his lesson, but not before stinking up the entire classroom with his nasty Croation morning crap. Him leaving will do wonders for our progress on the building – you’ll see what I mean in the pictures below. Hopefully he doesn’t come back next week at all.

Notice that the face is not flat at all. Everyone else’s is perfect because, we all did ours the way James showed us. Silvio insisted he could save time and effort by cutting a different way. This is the result.

Nothing on this joint is right. After I snapped these photos, Ryan took a chainsaw to this abomination and turned it into the two king posts we need to make yet. Then he placed it on top of one of the buildings down where we are working.