[pontiacpetey]

I made a barn for my daughter for her herd of 16 Breyer horses. I have built three other barns but this one was special, I decided to build a scale model of an Amish style barn all post and beam construction. I went and checked out some barns here locally and think I got it down pretty well. I had to make a couple custom tiny mortising chisels and doo-dads.
No nails at all just rock maple pins (made those too) holding it together. I used some of the last of my stash of local black cherry wood that I have been saving. With the exception of using a band saw to resaw the boards into planks and siding this was made all by hand no power tools. What do you all think?

the frame-40+ hours, the hardest part was getting it to open up and keeping it all square. it would have helped if I made plans first!! I just winged it based of trying to maximize waste of wood. It measures 33x22x22


stalls installed, making sure the barn still closes lol!!


roof rafters, ridge beam and siding going on. I know it should need way more rafters but hey, its a toy barn.



stall doors going in, yes I did use nails for these but I found some great old hinges!!


getting there, decided to use some thin birch ply for the roof after my bandsaw blade committed suicide.


2500 hand split cedar shingles, 9 hours there. I decided to add a cupola last minute.


I found a great weathervane!! the whole reason I decided to add the cupola! being that im weird I decided to make it functional too.


Hayloft door, I added a walnut pulley I made on my lathe, that toy hay is heavy, haha. Also found some great hex signs! love that stuff.


And the reason I spent about 60 hours on it, sharpened tools I haven't used in forever and decided this would be my masterpiece of toy building. My little girl Olivia.. She said it was the best Christmas ever!!