User:Jim Derby

Hi. I live in Maine, U.S.A. and I study historic carpentry and traditional building techniques which came to America from many places and is a complex subject. My focus is on editing timber framing and the many related topics which are minimally organized right now. Jim Derby (talk) 20:37, 10 December 2012 (UTC) I expanded my editing to carpentry and construction topics in general this winter. I think Wikipedia is getting to be a good place to look for basic construction information. Jim Derby (talk) 15:41, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

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WikiProject Architecture.

Substantial edits and articles

• Post (structural) - new article since the word post is distinct from column in carpentry
• Dragon beam - new article, formerly a redirect.
• Bressummer - substantial edits
• Timber framing - substantial edits
• Rafter - list of rafter types
• Joist - list of joist types
• Timber Framers Guild - new article
• Log building - new page, classified as disambiguation page but is more of an index, still learning how to handle that.
• Cant hook - still a short article but I made substantial changes
• Timber roof truss - added content, still needs work
• Gambrel - added to history
• Post-and-plank - substantial rewrite
• Hewing - expanded
• List of timber framing tools - new list
• Hay barrack - new article
• Norman Wallace Lermond - added content.

I have stopped adding to this list.

working on

• New England Barn
• Layout methods in Traditional timber framing
• timber roof truss