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I can't seem to preview this pic so I hope this works! Anyhow, it's my new front door. The carving is about 25" in diameter and the wood is yellow cedar.

Gridlok

Hmm, still can't see my pic. I might need a little technical help here.

Hi there!
Just to get you going on this image business:

I'd create an account at photobucket.com or some other hosting service. There you upload the pictures.
You can embedd pictures if you paste links into the message you're creating, then highlight the link and press on the "Img"-button at the top of the menu.

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Or, and even easier, you can trigger an already formatted link of the desired image straight from photobucket, and simply paste it into the message.



So, what's this all about? There are quite a bunch of handy and keen wood worms about, care to give us a little more to chew on?

Cheers

-Nutter

Ha! I'd been hoping someone would make the picture work. Thank you, Nutter!

Is that your work, gridlok? I am seriously, properly impressed. Major kudos to you.

I'm planning to knock down a house and build a new one in the next two or three years. There will be a lot of timber involved: green oak and also seasoned blond wood, probably beech or even better sycamore. I want to mix modern and traditional timber-framed methods and I have an architect with the appropriate skills.

One of my little pet enthusiasms follows a principle expounded by Charles Jencks: that a building should be intimately entwined with its own decorative/artistic program. That stuff shouldn't be added later as an afterthought.

I would SO like to have you to work with! Man, the good things we'd build into the design. It would be a work of art. Be warned though, I'd keep you busy for about the next ten years...

Gridlok, all we want now is more photos of your work, please. The whole door in situ, for starters. And absolutely anything else you'd like to show. This is so cool!

Cheers - C

PS: now I'm here by all means go back to the first post and take my name out of the title, if you feel like it. Don't want to exclude others...

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Not at all! I was keen to get the ball rolling on this - that's a nice piece of carving! How are you going to seal it, Gridlok? Is there more?

Like always on this forum: piccies, piccies, piccies! (unless they give away too much of course - privacy first)

-Nutter

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Man that's cool! Nice work Gridlock.

Andy

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Thanks Nutter for helping with my picture. Still not sure what I did wrong as I have posted lots of pics before. I will have to try again with many more shots of this project. Unfortunatly I have to get to the shop and work on it right now so will get back to y'all later.

Gridlok

Some talented work there Gridlok!!

I like it! Kind of has a Pacific NW vibe to it. Lovely.

Totally West Coast! I designed it, (the door that surrounds this piece of art), from a beautiful Haida painting called, "The Moon". And it will be going on a very west coast house. As soon as I get a few pics uploaded to Photobucket I will fill you in a bit more.

Cheers,
Gridlok

I'll try these pictures. Wish me luck!



I took this yesterday. Gives you idea how it's going to look.

Nutter, I'm not sure how I want to seal it. It needs something just to keep it clean if nothing else. I'm thinking a light stain right now. I have to get some samples.

Ceri thanks for checking in. I knew I'd see you here. (And I don't seem to know how to edit my OP.)

Gridlok

[I'm planning to knock down a house and build a new one in the next two or three years. There will be a lot of timber involved: green oak and also seasoned blond wood, probably beech or even better sycamore. I want to mix modern and traditional timber-framed methods and I have an architect with the appropriate skills.]


Sir Ceri, are you tearing down your country home? That would make an interesting photo journal, too.

Speaking of wood, the tree behind that person on the left is the largest of its kind in the whole world. (They say.) They used to ship a part of them to jolly old England to cure high born fornicators of syphilis (two tries on that spelling. another world record. haha) Southern US folks used to make tea from the roots. That could be the cure. We drank it only for refreshment, being as there were no fornicators here.

Hi GTG, how's it going? You've sent me on a little research mission with that post, because I don't know of the tree in question. I've found something called a Guaiacum - is that the one? I so strongly doubt it worked, but I notice from this page that it was used all over Europe in the 16th century to treat syphilis, as you mention. I bet they were desperate - we're a terrible lot of fornicators this side of the pond :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaiacum

I also see on that page that guaiacum was the first word of North American origin to enter the English language. Who knew? Now you're going to tell me it's a completely different tree you're sitting in front of.

That's the plan, though it has been held up for a long time due to... stuff. At an expo we found an architect's practice we liked and then discovered they are located about five miles from the house in question. Which is handy! They also run a subsidiary company which does the green oak timber framing, if required. Even handier. If you're interested, this is the kind of thing we're thinking about:

http://www.roderickjamesarchitects.co.uk/

A mixture of traditional age-old techniques and some modern forms that couldn't be mistaken for anything other than the present time. Not for everyone, but I like 'em!

And to gridlok: more pictures please! I love it...

Cheers - C

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Very nice work Gridlock. You might want to consider using some of this for your seal coat. Tough stuff. I'm a self employed cabinetmaker and have used it on occasion for just the same type project as yours. Hope this helps............Mike http://www.valsparglobal.com/val/resident/manowar.jsp

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NIce work Grid' indeed.

Ceri With the current trend towards cold winters (something I think we'll see more of) and the subsidies for using green energy, I completely recommend Scandanavian imported houses. Don't go British that's for sure. Modern British regulations regarding timber frame house building are not good to say the least. Ill thought out methods of securing heat and insulating leading to homes prone to excessive amounts of condensation.
Sweden is the place to go for home ideas.
http://www.nexthouse.se/husmodeller

Built one a few years back for one of the bosses of Solihul tax office. 3 heating systems. A water boiler and radiators, a wood burner then a heat recycling system running through the house too. Insulated in all the correct places (where British design really falls down). Soundproofing with strength, something unheard of in modern housing.
We had some snow 6 months after completion. I found myself driving past as the roads began clearing a week after the last snowfall. Everywhere covered in grey slush from the thaw. That house had a perfect foot of snow thick blanket on the roof. Absolutely no heat loss through the roof.
Probably the best house I've seen. Randy Learner (owner of the Cleveland Brown's) house isn't as good.

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Hi Nick: we absolutely are going British as it happens!

I know exactly the Scandinavian timber kit houses you are talking about and they're excellent. But take a look at the stuff in the my link, above. It is truly fantastic work - I've been and looked at several of their buildings and talked with some people who had that firm do a house for them. The insulation is up to three times over European legal spec, just for example. You can light a match in those houses and it'll warm the room for a week. Well, almost...

And the green oak is just gorgeous. You can specify English grown timber if you wish, but most English oak in fact comes from France where they have much bigger plantations of the stuff. And hey, let's denude someone else's landscape, why not? (English oak is a species: the name doesn't denote place of growth.)

However. Money is sort of the issue at present. This stuff don't come cheap and we pretty much cleaned ourselves out buying the site. My grandparents' place in Devon, which we half inherited but half had to buy another family member out of. Tricky things, families...

Don't want to start on a project like this till we're good and solvent, which the recession has not helped with. Nothing worse than running out of funds halfway through a building project. I bet we've both seen that happen, huh?

Cheers - C

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