How To Layout Roundwood Timber Frame Joinery

[@Ernie-Purkis]

These videos are so helpful as I have just bought 5 1/2 acres of woodland

[@mjpbase1]

I'm not sure why but there's something comforting to see Sam quietly and diligently making things right in the background. No doubt having a helper speeds the process and saves your back / shoulder from further injury.

[@LewisEGilbert]

Your old school should be really embarrassed by this point. You are a natural and inspiring teacher, not the least as you have demonstrated to us all that learning is all part of moving forward.

[@liftoffthecouch]

I want to let you know that you've inspired me to try some round wood framing in my backyard. I'm nowhere near your skill level, but I would have had no idea how to do any of it without your videos. So thanks, for being inspiring and a good enough teacher to get me going.

[@wolfe1970]

takes me back to when i was in college doing carpentry in 87', great explanation of how to tenon a wonky log, wish my teacher was this good with explaining things

[@simonr6793]

Kris you almost had me fooled here putting up two yes 2 video's at the same time for our pleasure to view, for a moment I thought I was going daft and starting to see things that weren't really there!!! Cheers for the double bubble you nearly had me fooled!!!

[@OldNew45]

Same here.

[@gardnerwilson57]

Thanks for this video. It's very informative and well put together. A must for any new wood worker out there. You are a good instructor. Thanks, Me southern AZ.

[@abit2556]

I did not understand using the plumb bob before this, other videos were so confusing. Thank you!

[@Richie8a8y]

Thanks For That Kris! It’s nice to see Sam working away in the background - Hi Sam!

[@lennyf1957]

I've been away from the channel for a while, busy with other stuff but it's nice to see that you are now talking to the camera and not mumbling under your breath with your back to the camera...LOL

[@Absfor30]

As always great video, it's nice to have a "in the workshop with Kris" style video! Especially about niche topics!

[@josephkrug8579]

That little electric chainsaw not only looks to cut better, but it is way quieter than a circular saw for that application :) Fun and informative video as always. Thanks for sharing this process.

[@jerrybarrett6376]

Great teaching of the old strong way of building. Most people today do not know how to go about this technique of building with timber’s. Excellent job of show and tell. Thanks Kris. 🐻🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@roryembleton778]

Sterling tutorial, thank you for taking the time to help me gain an education i wouldn't even know where to look for, and certainly couldn't afford!

[@jpsimon206]

I never thought about it before, but the way you work with roundwood is exactly how manual machinists work. When we get a cylinder, we have to assume it is not round. Pretty much all operations start by finding center and indexing everything else around that. Kind of the reverse of traditional carpentry

[@george8873]

One of those jobs the battery powered chainsaw excels at, especially if you're working in your shop. Won't be stinking up your shop with exhaust and much easier to pull a trigger switch to get the saw running than yanking on a pull cord to start it.

[@johndeggendorf7826]

Not to mention the sound…your neighbors will thank you. ✌️☕️🎩🎩🎩

[@Felix.Wingfield]

Those old round timber videos are why I subbed!

[@lunayahwitch]

Best video I’ve seen showing this principle! Well done❤️🇺🇸

[@Control-Freak]

I admire your skill and educational video. At one point I was thinking of getting a mill. Now I am thinking round wood, adze and axe. I just enjoy trying to build things in the way they did in the days before power.

[@themopeduniverse]

Thanks Kris. I've been watching your videos and your evolution for years, but I haven't built any timber frame projects yet. I've been too afraid and too confused to try, as I don't have a bandsaw mill, just lots of trees. I live in Washington State, known as the evergreen state! The concept of joining roundwood timber makes my brain sad. So, I'm happy that I found this video of yours. I'd like to start by building something similar to your DIY micro hydro powerhouse, but use it as a garden tool shed. I an excited to dirty my hands with cob as well, so that seems like a great project. Keep up the great videos!

[@kf6948]

The level of craftsmanship you have come to achieve over your youtube journey is impressive. Imagine the quality you will attain and the swiftness with which you will attain it in another decade. Or two! I hope you are still taking us along for the ride at that point. Keep up the excellent work.

[@willnicholson7169]

I see a future for “Harbour Shorts”. These gems will help us mortals get our heads round how you do things!

[@livingoffgridinscotland]

Very useful. We are just starting on a roundwood pole barn…

[@nick.caffrey]

Absolutely great video, Kris. Your instructions are clear, and the demo is well photographed. Really top end stuff! Thank you.

[@TimToben]

Great video! Thank you. Exactly what I was searching for and using tools that are readily available. Love the use of the saw as the straight-edge. That’s the real deal.

[@samuelmartin5061]

If you are trying to learn roundwood timber-framing, I would suggest diving into it and learning and learning the steps as you go. It can be a bit hard to understand until you are actually trying to make it happen. Thanks for the tips Kris! Best lesson I’ve seen on this subject, and I’ve looked quite a bit.

[@Ana_crusis]

Good stuff. You're becoming very professional at the old videos now Kris 👍

[@AfricanSouthernCross]

Great informative for someone who isn’t great at woodworking, thank you mate !

[@goofeybutreal4398]

Just what I was looking for. Thank you for sharing.

[@jameswilliams8372]

Thank you for taking to time to do this.

[@TheKnacklersWorkshop]

Hello Kris, Nicely explained... I remember watching the original video and think it was a good approach and would work well... Thank you. Take care. Paul,,

[@jeffconnor8469]

Well described kris great video s you guys make Jeff C Australia 🇦🇺

[@TheSMEAC]

Enjoyed this as I do all your content. I know you’re concerned about production some times, but I’m a fan of the content; practical, well explained, well demonstrated, and accessible. Thanks brother!

[@RoyBlumenthal]

What an amazingly clear tutorial. Thanks.

[@SecrePeach]

Brilliant video, thanks so much for explaining in a simple and easy to understand way. I’ve always wanted to try it on a small project but haven’t been confident enough until now 👍🏼

[@69Buddha]

Great explanation that I think is going to be really useful for a lot of people. Looks like the sawhorses are holding up well!

[@wellingtonabella4641]

Thank you sir for your work. I have now idea working of woods. God bless you

[@acaptainslife9712]

Loved this right from the start when he used the backside of a handsaw as a straight edge for drawing a line lol

[@lostinaveyron2279]

Just made the move to my own place with roughly 6 hectares of woodland - looking forward to your how to videos! Been following your project for a while and it’s amazing to see the progress 👌

[@caroljunegeoghegan9596]

Very interesting. As always great “how to” video.

[@ErikM513]

Nice work man!

[@thehillsidegardener3961]

Great video, revisiting this because I have some reclaimed timbers I am using for a build. They aren't round, but they ain't square either, they have rounded corners, unequal sides and all sorts. Your method is basically a line rule method, but the way you have explained it is simpler than some other videos I have seen and is going to be my go-to method for, I think. For one thing it makes more sense and seems quicker to me to find the centre point and work off that, than to try to mark a regular square on both ends which would be like your "imaginary" square timber.

[@icryostorm3727]

very useful Chris- very enjoyable. hoping to do a small leanto style shelter with roundwood WRC soon.

[@baal-ahuak-baalshaitanala8675]

Ark at you the old chainsaw sculpturing 😂 🤳 good stuff bro Happy Christmas and a happy new year to you my boi 🙏

[@jpsimon206]

There's a very simple inexpensive tool that pipefitters use that I think you would really benefit from. I'm not sure exactly what it's called, but it is a coil of very stiff paper and it has degrees markings all over it. When a pipe fitter needs to make a square cut much like what you do making tenons on the end of round wood, he wraps the tape around the pipe / log and the edge of the tape overlaps, allowing one to Mark a straight line all the way around the cylinder very accurately. The marked angles also allow you to mark out very precise bevels. It's an old tool from the years before plasma cutters, but you often find them at yard sales for $1 and they're all over eBay. I think this would be a fantastic marking tool as it's designed for a cast pipes, it is not necessary for the cylinder to be perfectly round in order to mark a perfectly square line all the way around it. You kick ass at what you do, just wanted to offer my two cents

[@BrianthatiscalledBrian]

Love this stuff. Thanks, Kris. 👍🙂

[@nosaltiesandrooshere7488]

👍 Danke fürs Hochladen! 👍 Thanks for uploading! 👍 Very good and beautiful, thank you! 👍 Sehr gut und schön, danke!

[@shortsweettoo]

That was awesome. Thanks Kris.

[@TreeCutterDoug]

Fantastic method bro. Thanks!

[@kenleach2516]

Just awesome watching and thanks for sharing

[@miltonpomales5405]

Great video, Kris!!!

[@MarcVerwerft]

Any chance for a tutorial on a mortise? Especially interested how you measure/layout the underside of the mortise. Thanks for the good advise and clear videos, Kris!

[@chriswills9530]

Nice clear tutorial.

[@martinmurphy3868]

Great work I love it

[@marygordon3032]

Awesome Kris! 👍👍👍💯💯💯

[@zebjafolla]

Hey Kris, Im confused about laying out the tenon secondary lines. At 7:50 I see you holding the ruler, is that supposed to be level and youre eyeballing it looking straight down? Also at 5:48 when you say the log is sitting level, in which way do you mean? Also at 5:48 same question, is that square supposed to be held leveled out from log? Thanks for all your videos! Its nice to see your work.

[@Grizzlife]

Great job but if I may suggest using the same string method down the middle and place a equal piece of wood thickness under string at each end. This will raise string not touching log down middle and be true and center and straight. Slide your square on log up to string and mark center.

[@TheMrWoodsman]

Very interesting and informative, thank you, I bet it feels better with the new haircut? 🤣

[@jgbdickcleland]

Nice one mate

[@toucansteve]

Hello Kris, I was wondering if you would care to share your State Of Charge of your electrical system at the start and end of day and its inputs. Thanks for your videos; I've been watching since you framed your small workshop.

[@kameljoe21]

How do I pick the first one to watch?

[@ServiceTrek]

search on round wood timber framing.

[@kameljoe21]

Everyone is still watching the other video.. Now to watch this one!

[@ServiceTrek]

Thank you. Starting a round wood shed project next week, been out gathering the logs between the rain here in NE Ohio, USA. It's been a very wet summer so far here. Watched all of your layout videos. Very helpful. Will you do the same type video for the mortise layout?

[@jackyoung5639]

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[@rogerclyde2720]

Seems very labor intensive, I suppose certain builds require different procedure.

[@canuckyank82]

Great lesson Kris! Keep them coming! How is the garden?

[@HowtoBuildaCampground]

thanks for sharing.

[@kevinlepoertrench3556]

Thanks for explaining the process Kris. Now makes more sense when you explaining what you're doing on the build. One thing I'd like to ask, not relevant to this video, but your hydro-power. Is there very little maintenance work that you need to do to it and then does it continue to supply you with power for all the building work and general house usage?

[@mikebeatstsb7030]

Love it ‼️💯👌

[@poodlesandwichmodding7101]

If the second centre point (for the second line) is chosen by eye on both sides, how do you know that they match up? Or is the other end measured somehow off the first? Thanks

[@hluthvik]

Thank you for the video! Very neat trick with the plumb for the shoulder. I have one question though: This only works, if the centre of the log is perfectly level, right? I am not sure, but I think if one end of the log is higher than the other, you'd get a tilted shoulder. This is no criticism, just a curious question since I've trouble lining out the shoulders on round logs :)

[@GeezerDog]

Thanks, man!

[@mx96288]

have you ever followed up the flywheel addition to your rotary phase converter? seeing the 3 (?) phase tenoning machine made me wonder. i guess the planer/thicknesser prob still has the highest startup requirements, those cutting wheels on the tenoning machine don't have nearly as much inertia, do they?

[@garymiceli7321]

can you please do a mortice companion to the tennon

[@brinhaerycammel3467]

Kris, can't you get these videos up a little more often, I'm kind of addicted now and I don't like withdrawals..

[@KrisHarbour]

Im glad you are enjoying them. One a week is about my limit im afraid

[@jamess1787]

Any luck with the arduino hydro valve system?

[@mrstratau6513]

If that timber was wet, is there a problem when it dries & shrinks, or does the joint become tighter?

[@KrisHarbour]

This type of joinery using draw pegs is for that movement. The pegs pull the joint tight and can be driven in further if gaps open up once dry.

[@mrstratau6513]

@@KrisHarbour Thanks.

[@OldNew45]

So you don't use the pith as the center of the tenon?

[@nikoscuatro7251]

thanks, sir!

[@jmd7244]

Anyone else think that Kris looks like Chip Foose?

[@chgoot4685]

But younger.... 😂

[@jmd7244]

@@chgoot4685 of course, way younger

[@royramey5659]

Thanks

[@cheebug]

thanks!

[@WilliamTMusil]

Hiya Kris

[@donmittlestaedt1117]

Thanks.

[@TheRealMcJack]

i reckon you would be easier marking the shoulders with a pipe wrap/straight cut lino etc centre your ends and mark out the super hashtag... then pull back your measurement at the 4 centre points and wrap the lino round giving you your edge to mark the shoulders... it may be easier than the square and string weight method? im sure you said you used to be a plumber so maybe you already tried and it didn’t work out...just my 10 pence 😂

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Wow

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