g'day

[simon d]

and hello. Simon here.
Your site is very impressive and I think i am a bit rude for not having gone here first.
Anyway. I have posted a notice about an experimental building project that i am inviting an interested craftsman to help me with, and am hoping it gets a pass and reply.
I am an artist first and foremost. I love joinery and I am wanting to design and build houses with it. My aim is to reinvigorate the craft of structural joinery as an architect because climate change is going to make the humble Mcmansion redundant. Actually, climate change might even make it morally repugnant.
Either way, timber is the way to go big time for house building and as much as i like nails and screws, and know that such fixings and plywood products is the only way to house the millions that need housing, I want to see the fantastic joinery of Japanese temples and farmhouses and European medieval house and barn joinery revived, even if only for high end architecture.
Log cabin style is not what i mean by the way, as it uses far more timber than is necessary.
Joinery rules (as my kids would put it if they could be bothered with joinery!) and real joinery needs apprentices!

[munruben]

Welcome to the forum

[simon d]

cheers, sim

[artme]

G'day Simon. Some people probably think you are a nut case because you are into what I consider a good project. That being the case you will fit right in here!

[simon d]

'Weird' is an old Gaelic word for 'one who knows their own destiny'. Last used in this sense by Shakespeare in Macbeth as the "weird sisters" (the three witches).
I was always thought of as weird, and proud of it! Now I'm a nut case. Actually I thought to ask on this forum if anyone knows a source of fruit and nut tree wood. I would love to get a few old trunks to turn into hard cases.
Cheers artme.