... with a big, wooden mallet knocking mortise into tenon. To make sure they stay that way, braces stiffen the frame, holding posts perpendicular to the beams.
Holes are drilled into the joints and wooden pegs driven into the holes to hold all the joints together. The joinery is all wood. As soon as you use nails or metal joints, you're timber frame becomes a mere (sniff) post and beam frame.The sun goes down early behind the Pinnacle, making an already short day shorter, and a cold afternoon colder. makes you want to keep on moving just to stay warm.
The large wooden mallet is used, of course, to keep from denting the finished timbers. I think just for fun I'll bring a heavy steel headed sledge hammer to the worksite and ask Willy if I can have a go at it ...
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