Today I spent a lot of time – I must be mad? – cutting the lumber (top right, above), into timber (left and centre), using the notched jig (above saw), and my ‘gentleman’s saw’.
A further cutting of the lumber will yield more than enough timber for the carcassing. In fact, I won’t have to do anything approaching all of it, as I have almost enough framing timber already.
I’m thinking I might make a raised plinth, or floor, so as to have underfloor insulation. If I do, I’ll work with the lolly sticks as they are, rather than doing any more of the gluing and cutting to size.
The set of eight – or two blocks of four – placed horizontally, above the cutting jig, are to be the lengthwise horizontal members. So they’ll need joining and then cutting down to size. I might do a stepped joint, for added strength?
I’m also wondering about fixings. Do I just glue it all together? Or shall I go the extra mile, and use tiny tacks/pins, as nails? I’d like to do both, really. I wonder how small a nail type pin or tack one can get?