Every tree that was felled for the Notre Dame Carpentry had a GPS stamp attributed to where it was felled,

and a number attributed to that, and all the way through from getting felled, trucked out, trucked to our shop, and then through the

hewing and layout, joinery, test assembly, et cetera, those tree numbers, log numbers were

preserved so that there's basically a 3D model being made that is going to be linked to

GPS sourcing of every single stick in the entire, you know, many thousands of

sticks in the entire frame to enable future research to be done about forestry and greenwood

sourcing and behavior of the wood.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion with building industry professionals.

Today, I'm joined by Will Gousikoff of Goose Wing Timberworks in Lincoln, Vermont.

This is Fine Home Building, contributing editor and production manager at TDS Custom Construction in Schwant.

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Will, thanks for joining me today.

You're a busy guy.

Thanks, Ian. It's a pleasure to be here.

So tell us a bit about your background and how you got into timber framing. I've always thought

of timber framing as a pretty high end art within the carpentry field.

Thank you. I appreciate that perspective.

I grew up right near where I live now in Bristol, Vermont, and started doing stick framing as a

summer job in high school and continued that through college.

And liked carpentry in all forms in one of those summers,

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