Line drawing of south elevation of Peyton Randolph House roof
Smokehouse
Advice given to apprentices in Moxon's MECHANICK'S EXERCISES: "There is required a pretty skill in driving a nail."
Visitors help Colonial Williamsburg's carpenters to raise the back wall of the smokehouse.
Carpenters fit the girt, the timber that supports the king post.
The master builder bores a hole while his apprentice plumbs the wall.

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