Craftsmen Matt Friel and Pat Connor machine and assemble a rustic cabin using fine furniture joinery.
Pat Connor machines a dovetail onto the end of a stud using a simple jig and a hand-held router.
Connor machines a tenon into a wall plate using a jig and router.
Connor test-fits a mortise and tenon joint in the shop.
Carpenter Matt Friel assembles a wall plate that includes a steel flitch plate to resist rafter thrust.
Friel and Connor lift an engineered-wood beam into place.
Friel and Connor fasten a beam to a post using hardened steel screws.
Friel fine-tunes a tenon on site.
Friel taps a tenon into place in the mortise as the cabin takes shape.
Friel sets a stud into place on the wall plate.
Friel taps a tenoned stud into the mortised wall plate at the base of the wall.