Decorative pierced barge boards

[Wooden Lungs]

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All barges were cut out of home grown Douglas Fir from southern timber in devon.
House was built in 1905 and is a joy to work on.
Original barge boards split on the south facing side as they were so exposed.
They hand been hand cut and I can only imagine how long it took them.
We used jig saws and it took about 1.5 hours to mark up and cut a 4m lenght.

 

[woodguy7]

Nice work, not something you see every day  [smile]

 

[GPowers]

The curved glass is priceless.

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

Very nice.

I have a project like that in the works for the oldest standing house in my little town.

 

[-The Dutch Guy-]

Looks good, fun project!  Did you make some type of jig to draw the shapes over and over again? I like that type of house construction very much.

Cheers rené

 

[Deansocial]

i like the real decorative bargeboards

 

[Wooden Lungs]

Looks good, fun project!  Did you make some type of jig to draw the shapes over and over again? I like that type of house construction very much.

Cheers rené
Yes, we made up a 6mm mdf jig. It was a bit tricky as each apex was different and we wanted to get the spacing to look balanced.

There were five apexs in total.

It is a big old house with fifteen bedrooms.

Cheers for the  comments guys.