#Decorative rafter tails full size

I tack the masonite onto the stock and using a bandsaw with a template guide, cut the design onto the decorative tail. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. See more ideas about pergola, pergola designs, rafter tails. Many homes had several styles within the home, the upper roof with bold grand and big rafter tails, overhanging bay windows and other secondary roof systems with slightly smaller and more intricate designs, and porch roof systems with yet a third design. Explore Greg Ks board 'Pergola rafter tails' on Pinterest. Depending on the size of the job, I might use two master templates for the project, in case I nick one. Transfer it to a quarter inch masonite template.

#Decorative rafter tails full size

Since most of my work is turn of the century California arts & crafts stuff, Green and Green is a favorite style for me.ĭraw a full size paper pattern over your stock. I survey the neighborhood and try to pick out some very basic designs that can be replicated. Many designs have a circle or oval milled into them to support a copper or galvinized half round gutter system, which adds a nice finished look. Galvinized or copper drip cap tacked onto EGP. 3/4 inch T&G 'V' Board covers the rafter tails and then 1/2' EGP for a substrate for the roofing, and only about 6-12 inches is exposed beyond that roof line. The roof rafter are cut plumb at the top plate and only the decorative rafters go past the top plate and comprise the overhang, which is about 2-3 feet. They are generally a larger size than the standard rafter, and some I have done are as large as 3x8 Doug Fir stock, which I have specially milled.

In fact, I can't recall any article on decorative rafter tails.įor homes, I usually attach mine under the roof, at about 6 feet inside the top plate, by sistering them to the basic garden variety rafters. I can tell you that there will no articles on Blue Herron rafter tails.