Timber joints style - your opinion

[MikeWayzovski]

well…lets just say It is a version of a shouldered Anchor -Beam joint, which, originated from the Netherlands, travelled all the way to Pennsylvania and went through various changes ! I feel I have to speak up for my ancestors

We usually make pegs by sawing, 8-sides and bevelled at the front. The (round) holes of the post don’t line up exactly wth the tenon of the girt, so by hammering the pegs, the joint will get tightened, pegs usually oak, post and girts pine…

here is another great book:

[DaveR]

@MikeWayzovski

The (round) holes of the post don’t line up exactly wth the tenon of the girt, so by hammering the pegs, the joint will get tightened

That’s known as draw-bore joinery.

[SchneiderS]

Hi Dave,

thank you very much. I am not just using angled faces, in some drawings i will use 2D drawing, so i need an solution for the two styles.

So in the bottom line, i can make your round break lines or the other break lines i menttioned before. So there is no right and wrong?

[SchneiderS]

@MikeWayzovski

pegs

Very nice. How do you do this GIF animation? And how do you do different timber joint positions in the same file? It is very interessting.

[MikeWayzovski]

The gifs are generated with Licecap and I used scenes in this example (multiple instance of the components in different positions and visibility

[SchneiderS]

Thank you very much. This tool is light and amazing. Thank you!

@MikeWayzovski

I used scenes in this example (multiple instance of the components in different positions and visibility

Is there an Tutorial to learn how to do that?

[DaveR]

You can use either a curved break line or angled as you wish. For 2D drawings you could use the curve idea, too.

[SchneiderS]

Hi Dave,

ok thank you. Any suggestion how i can make fast an easy this curved break line?

I checked out the tutorial from aaron bishop (SketchUp 8 Lessons: Making Rounded Objects - YouTube) but it seems to be very complex. I wanna style about 70 scarf joints :-S

[DaveR]

I used the Bezier curve tool from Fredo’s Bezier Spline extension to draw the curves and his Curviloft extension to create the surface. You can get both from Sketchucation.

Round Corner is a great tool but not for this particular job.

[bmike]

Make a solid ‘cutting block’ and then use the solid tools to subtract or trim it from the timbers.

[MikeWayzovski]

Here’s a similar post…:

How to show two positions of Dynamic hinged doors

It not rocket science. You insert two instances. Associate each instance with a layer of it’s own. A “Closed” layer, and an “Open” layer. The “Open” layer is OFF in the “Closed” scene. Update the layer. The “Closed” layer is OFF in the “Open” scene. Update the layer. Now switch to the “Open” scene. Select the component instance and right-click it, choose “Make Unique”. (This creates a unique component definition for this instance, so you can edit it without affecting the “closed” one.) N…

using dynamic components and a different style:

.skp included ! Have fun! Scarf Joint.skp (640.4 KB)

[john_mcclenahan]

Picking a small nit here - I wouldn’t call this a Scarf joint, more an oblique pegged Mortice and Tenon.

Scarf joint to me implies overlapping end to end joint to lengthen a piece of timber.

[MikeWayzovski]

It is not small, didn’t change the name of the .skp What bothers me more is the second ‘onclock’ operation (pulling out the girt first and then the pegs

[johanvs]

If you should interested, I could make a dynamic component.
By clicking with the dynamic component ‘hand’-tool, the joint opens or close (as an animation).
Somebody interested?

Johan Van Synghel
Macinfo.be

[Sophronia]

Read through all the posts here and was wondering if you managed to arrange everything in the end?