A modest garage

[tule peak timber]

I did the beams for this modest garage. Carbon fiber panel posts, polished concrete floors, and a lot of led lights. The lights reflect off of the floor so the owner can admire the undersides of his race cars $$$$$$$$$$.

 

 

[Magicman]

Very nice overhead beams. 

modest: having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions.

[btulloh]

Modest indeed. Those nice beams really help it though .

[tule peak timber]

Modest ,,, NOT,,LOL !  His neighbor is coming by next week for his home upgrade of beams. Keeping up with the Jones's so to speak.

[barbender]

I hope you charged them according to their modesty!😁

[AZ_builder]

Tiny garage, hardly any room lol lol lol

[Don P]

That bottom pic beam lap sure has me scratching my head ???

[tule peak timber]

That bottom pic beam lap sure has me scratching my head ???

A simple half lap with some endgrain exposed- all of these are hollow and within the limits of what I can mill. The header beam in this pic has disguised joints due to milling limits. 2/2/37 feet. The challenge of widening, thickening or lengthening wood.......  

[Ruffgear]

How did you make those hollow beams are they 45d on edges? Are they 3 sided?  Great work btw..

[cbla]

 smiley_clapping

[tule peak timber]

Ruffgear, Mostly 3-sided and I use a rabbit joint on edges. The 37 footer has copper butt joints and a steel skeleton of sorts to facilitate mounting. The contractor that put the garage together brought another beam job in the shop and wants 4-sided this time. If you want I'll document the next build. Rob  

 

[John S]

I would like to see that, there is a young lady nearby who wants a mantle to cover an existing concrete one.

[tule peak timber]

Will do on documenting the next build.The next build will start  in a few days. A beam section from a few months back  Rob

 

[Ruffgear]

Thanks Rob, that would be great. I've followed your work for quite some time, You do great work! Can't find the edges at all in your pics. And I presume those are matching end caps.

[tule peak timber]

Yes on the end caps. I take gnarly cracked log ends about an inch thick and sandwich them between two pieces of plywood . The next day I send the sandwich through a bandsaw creating a bookmatched set of end plugs. Next the end plugs are squared-up on a table saw at a 1 degree angle to precision fit the end of the beam / mantle. Extend the cracks with a chisel and it is hard to tell that it is not solid.  

 Then after a little color touch up , the mounting. This mantle also has a hidden gun safe within. Rob

  

[John S]

Sorry Rob, having a senior moment.  I cannot figure out what your sandwich looks like and how you feed it through the bandsaw.

[tule peak timber]

John, A pic of the "cookie sandwich". This pic is actually two scraps I pushed together but you get the idea. A one inch select cookie glued between two plywood squares. When you center resaw this sandwich through a bandsaw it is important to have a flat side against the saw's table to help resist rotation. Also a finer toothed blade---not a resaw blade----will help resist rotation .

 

[SwampDonkey]

If that is modest, come build me one for $12,000   25' x 20', nothing monumental. :D :D

[tule peak timber]

Swamp,,,If you add one zero on the end of your proposal number we can build this for you. Pics of  another garage we did last year- just the millwork- not the building !  Another modest, understatement...........

 

 

 

 

[SwampDonkey]

I can certainly understand those numbers, I know first hand what it costs for a no frills modest house. :D

[John S]

Thanks Rob, I will give that a shot.  Beautiful work, as usual for you.  Have not seen any "garages" like that around here.