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Hi Lloyd this site combines two thing you appreciate, Music & Architecture. Enjoy!
https://www.codfishhollowbarnstormers.com/about-us.html
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
Thanks for posting the information on Codfish. We are fortunate to have such a cool venue right here in our own backyard, in Northeastern Iowa. http://bckrvue.blogspot.com/2014/05/codfish-barnstormersbig-sound-small.html
Hey Lloyd, maybe you know, but thought I mention it in case not.
Just watched Sunray Kelley on HGTV. Looked good. Also, Sunray demonstrated his "Inverter" to get the kinks out of his back…Seems like something you "need" on your homestead (grin).
checked Sunray's site, here's some lings to t.v. /etc stuff.
http://sunraykelley.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=3&Itemid=93
Lloyd, you mentioned your digging, the round barn roofs on a recent trip.
And that you were thinking about making a shed with a curved roof…
Popular Mechanics did some articles on curved rafters.
April 1953 pg 194
http://books.google.com/books?id=UdwDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA194&dq=curved+rafters&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZNX1U_7ODYucyQTb_YKwBw&ved=0CFcQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=curved%20rafters&f=false
I think this second one would work for your shed building idea.
April 1956 pg 214
http://books.google.com/books?id=SeEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA214&dq=curved+rafters&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZNX1U_7ODYucyQTb_YKwBw&ved=0CFsQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=curved%20rafters&f=false
I got to these from
http://books.google.com/books
and searched for "curved rafters" there is a ton more info besides these two (and not all Pop/Mech).
Not to mention if you changed your search term.
Peace
Gill