Tod I'm really impressed with the truss cieling in the second to last pic. Could you elaborate more on these. Did you design them? Are they structual? What type of material did you use on top of the trusses...looks kind of like a bead board. Beautiful work!!
Doug
doug,
the actual frame members are recycled beams from some wharehouse back east, they are non-structural and i tried to make `em look like a timberframe "bent"......each one is hung from steel "u" chanel that spans 3 trusses and each half weighs around 350-400#, the joints are real pegged mortise-n-tennon.....i designed the whole ceiling using the customers broad stroke ideas.....the collar ties are something i tried to talk `em out of, being as they look too much like an oxen yoke to me....but that`s what they wanted.. that "beadboard" is actually 4 different widths of shop made t&g that i hand drawknifed on both the tongue and groove sides (that`ll make your arms burn after a coupla days)......thanks for the compliment!