[Crowbob]

Thank you, Zeke!

I’m using OSB for templates. Lightweight but rigid enough to lay ‘em up right on the structure itself for ‘adjustments’. For some reason every single one of my squares isn’t. Damn tools!

The hips will be a challenge. The drape requires The seat cuts on the birdsmouths to be incrementally one inch shallower from the center rafters to the hips which makes the Height Above Plate (HAP) one inch greater for each birdsmouth. That, of course, changes the plumb cuts at the ridge. I’m not concerned about the rafter tails yet until they’re all up. Normally, one would simply snap a line and cut the tails plumb. However, I’m thinking I might make the length of the rafters shorter at the corners (hips). If I do, the rafter slopes will be curved, the eves draped AND not linear but rather elliptical as viewed from above. We’ll see.

The way I do stuff makes me impatient. I used to tell people I see things that aren’t there. By that I mean I visualize the entire project, painting, tree, story or whatever in addition to each phase of it’s execution so that the whole thing, whatever it is, ends up being a process of making my idea into reality. The whole time I get increasingly anxious to compare the thing to what I have already seen in my mind. It’s a burden.

The difference between a dreamer and an artist is that the artist ends up with something.