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The best way to make a curved knee brace
When I'm making curved knee braces for our frames, rather than cut curves out of straight material, I procure trees that have grown with curves already in them. This means, first of all, that there is no short grain runout, which makes the brace stronger, and secondly it means that each knee brace is bespoke — original; beautiful.
Working with green wood
As a craft tradition, Timber Framing has utilized green wood — in this case, meaning freshly-cut or still living — since its inception. Throughout the ages, carpenters refined a system of joinery to work with live wood. Joinery, as the name suggests, is a method of bringing and holding timbers together.