- Starting Up
- Rough Sawn Lumber Delivery
- Planning the Timber Frame Gazebo
- Peg Making (It’s a hard knot life for us…)
- The Foundation (sill plates and joists)
- Flooring (half-lap)
- Posts and Beams (part 1)
- Braces – Posts and Beams (part 2)
- Bent Assembly : Posts and Beams (part 3)
- Bent Raising: Post and Beams (part 4)
- Rafter Creation
- Top Plates – Tying it all together
- Raising the Rafters
- Windows Resurected
- Roof Decking and Siding Preparation
- Raising the Roof
- Cedar Shingles
- Siding the Gazebo – Shiplap
- Screens with Wood Frames
- Making Wooden Bolts
- Door with Wooden Hinges
Background: Timber frame construction (often called post and beam) uses a method of large posts secured only with joints (wood puzzle pieces) and wooden pegs. After reading a great little book called Diary of an Early American Boy (a gift from my nephew) I got the idea to start designing a building that used no metal in its construction. Timber framing is a method of construction that is extremely long lasting and durable…and a lot of hard work. (Steve is a sadist, for wanting to build in this style) This Gazebo / Solarium is made with no metal, except for the nails holding on the roof and shingles. With the exception of the foundation (which is modern pressure treated lumber) the lumber is all rough sawn red pine. 
In planning this project I first did some reading to develop an understanding of the basic joints used and methods of timber frame construction. They also give a good understanding of the tools involved. I found these books to be quite good.
- Timber Frame Construction: All About Post and Beam Building
- A Timber Framer’s Workshop: Joinery, Design & Construction of Traditional Timber Frames
The posts that follow will serve as a bit of a diary of the process of building a timber frame gazebo.