Notre Dame

[Lorien]

hey I just came across this article about a blacksmith making axes for the carpenters tasked with rebuilding the burned out roof of the cathedral
pretty interesting!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/notre-dame-de-paris-restoration-fire-axe-1.6900169

 

[NWFRS]

That is some Dame good marketing.

 

[G. Scott H.]

Cool that he's doing period correct tools.

 

[John A. Larsen]

I finally found the video on You Tube where 25 men and women practice making an "A" frame for the reconstruction of Notre-Dame. The belong to an organization : Charpentiers Sans Frontieres" or "Carpentars Without Borders. The title of the video is: "The Carpenters Restoring Notre-Dame".

John

 

[rjdankert]

The title of the video is: "The Carpenters Restoring Notre-Dame".

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/charpentiers-sans-frontieres-notre-dame.1742093/


Bob

 

[mjhMN]

A friends husband is one of the timber framers working on ND.....heck of a project.

 

[rjdankert]

Not axe related but current news on the roof frames.

Bob

 

[Square_peg]

Not axe related but current news on the roof frames.

Bob

I suspect the original builders didn't have a tower crane.