A House In The Trees Part VIII

With the walls and lower shed roof done, this video documents the clear-story and main roof framing.
I framed the clear-story to accommodate the windows Im going to fabricated using some Kalwall samples I have. Im not yet sure if the main roof will receive a skylight or not, but if it does I wont bother to cut out the rafters within the skylight footprint. It is, after all, just a tree house.

If youd like to catch up on how the Tree House got to this point, be sure to check out these older posts.

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The Modern Woodworkers Association Google Community

This post was originally published on the Modern Woodworkers Association site on 12/14/12. Im sorry for the re-posting here, but we feel this is important and I wanted to make sure it was seen and shared. Dont worry, this wont take the place of a regular Monday or Thursday post here.One of the core beliefs here at the Modern Woodworkers Association is that woodworking is a community. We dont care what kind of woodworking you do, what kind of tools you use or what you build. As long as you love working wood, youre our neighbor.

Were all a great big woodworking community.

I mention this in light of Googles new addition to Google+: Communities.

In the MWA Community share your projects, ask questions or just chat woodworking.

I wont go into too much detail here, but Communities are a new choice to share on Google+ based around common interests. When you post within a community, all the communitys members can see and comment on your post, even if you havent circled them. While its not the best place to share birthday greetings to your cat, its a great place to talk about a shared passion . . . such as, I dont know . . . woodworking.

Who wouldnt want to be in a Community with these galoots?

There is already a great general woodworking community on Google+ started by David Bennett & Tammy Capistrant. There is also the Modern Woodworkers Association Google+ Community. You can join as many communities as you like, so please, join both and share. We want to see what everyone is working on and keep the woodworking community growing.
By the choice, to anyone who already joined, please check that youre still in. As we want everyone to join in, weve made a change from the original MWA G+ Community. Its now public. Unfortunately, this meant we had to delete the original private community and start over. So if you were in and we deleted you with the original community, were sorry. Please sign up again and join in.

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