re: Getting started

Eric, we have a guy in our guild who is a retired aeronautical engineer and has a  lot of money to buy toys. He has a 6' x 12' CNC router and makes post and beam structures. Since he got the CNC he has gotten away from the mortise and tenon style of post and beam building He now routs a pocket on both side of the post and beam on the CNC and builds these gussets to fit into the pockets and bolts them in. The Amish who build for him put up the frame for his new workshop barn in one day. They love this method. I was at the demo of the routing process and did not have my camera. I'll try to get you some shots of it in the future.