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Grand County Project Profile
Grand County1 by tetw on Sketchfab I thought I would occasionally share some projects and some of the steps in the process. I am calling it "Project Profiles" until I can come up with a better name. Project Location: Grand County Builder: Mountain Top Builders...
The Times They Are A Changin’
I started Three Elements Timberworks in 1999. Before that, I was framing during the days and timber framing during the evenings and weekends. I stumbled across some old photos from the mid 90's. (Wow, am I really that old?) It was a shock to see how much things have...
The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. I have never seen it or read it. I don't even know what it is about. I just like the title. I was reminded of it when I decided to write about one of my life experiments. It seems that I have...
A single version of the truth
For those of you who follow my blog, you know that I am an advocate for 3d solid modeling. Not just 3d modeling but parametric modeling. Parametric modeling allows us to make changes to the model without having to start from scratch. Click here to see a short video...
Timber Frame Redwood Pergola
Our goal at Three Elements Timberworks is to provide our customers with as many solutions as possible. Here is the caveat. It has to be within our "wheelhouse". So when Humboldt Redwood approached us about building outdoor structures using their redwood timbers we...
Digital modeling and fabrication
A few weeks ago I told a colleague: "at Three Elements Timberworks we are experts in digital modeling and fabrication." He replied "what does that mean?" I thought I would try to explain it in a post and show one example of work we have done using this technique. In...
Solid-modeling is a waste of time?
We spend a lot of time building computer models. I would be lying if every once in a while I don't question whether or not we are wasting time with all of the modeling and details. Then a situation comes up where I realize how powerful our modeling is. One example is...
Lamboo Technologies
What, you can build a timber frame with posts and beams made from bamboo? Several years ago I started to notice that every once in a while I would walk into an architect’s office and tell them I was a timber framer and they would tell me that they only build “modern”...
