Pavilion joints

This is for Tom who asked here how the vertical beams connect to the horizontal ones at the corners. The answer is that it is a mortice and tennon joint which goes right through and also holds the two corner pieces together. Very neat!

The two corner pieces are joined by a special kind of dovetail joint which has a very long name in German and Hannes didn't know if it had an English name. He described this joint as a mixture of French and German techniques and the whole building uses a blend of various different European joints. I think that cutting these joints will require a great deal of patience and accuracy and I am really looking forwards to seeing it happen.

(Again this was communicated via the wonders of Skype with Hannes sketching and holding bit of paper up to the camera to explain!)

Comments

[Tom]

Wow, many thanks for remebering my question and to Hannes for the sketch. Great service! Your Blog is really interesting and very informative. I'm a hobby woodworker and really enjoy reading your stories :-)

[Richard Law]

Nicola, from my four volume "Practical Woodworker" by Bernard Jones date unknown, but looks Victorian, the joint at the corners, without the added complication of the vertical post joint, looks to be a "double bevelled angle half-lap" the book just comments it is occasionally used for heavy framing work, wall plates, sills and binders to withstand a pulling stress.

[Nicola Wood]

Sound plausible Richard - translate it into German, make it into one, long compound noun and I bet that is what Hannes was calling it. Robin was too busy giggling for me to catch it properly and attempt to write it down!