Sunday morning, the guys who needed it most went off to church while the majority of the crew continued with layout and checking apace. Each crew is projecting a different level of progress, and of course, several sticks have been laid out several times.

Whit & Gable have devised a 'status at a glance' board at the uphill end of the shop - to which each team reports the condition and position of their sticks in the production chain.

Cutting breaks out after lunch!

After hours and hours and hours of layout and checking, after a complete tool inspection, after lesson after lesson and more lessons (how and why to knife your lines) (what's this big tool do?) the flywheel finally came up to speed.

The tranquil days of layout and quiet conversation (no job-site radios for us!) are suddenly replaced with the excitement of POWER TOOLS.

Dennis Hambruch is dashing about providing professional-level instruction on the use and care of the Mafell Miracles he stuffed into his trailer. Makita mortisers abound, and are deployed in unison. We've elected to drill peg holes with the Mafell drill stnds; a perpendicular peg hole is essential to quality work here, since we are using very large timber, and draw boring every tenon.

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Crew size at rollout = 38
Manhours invested at the end of this day = 912
Meals appreciated by the end of this day = 266