Carpentry
Roadmap
The wood is now ready, but only then does the real work begin. To ensure that the truss fits together nicely, a number of steps are required in a fixed order. Good preparation is everything. During the construction of a half-timbered nativity scene, we filmed all the steps of the carpentry. You can watch the videos below.
Video 1. Marking the centerlines
Video 3. Marking the timber joints
Video 5. Cutting the timber joints
Video 2. Preparation of the timber joints
Video 4. Sawing the tenons of the mortise and tenon joints
Types of timber joints
In woodworking there is a timber joint for every possible application, too many to cover here. Below we give some examples of commonly used timber joints in traditional half-timbered construction: welded joints, cross lap joints, corner lap joints, overlap joints and scarf joints.
Cross lap joint in the Bee hall
Corner joint: sturdy dovetail joint in the Winnowing barn
Corner joint: overlap joint in the Winnowing barn
Overlap joint in the Winnowing barn
Angled joint in the Winnowing barn