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Working closely with Old West Woods, a company OTB has had the pleasure of collaborating with for years, we designed, OTB created the VBE™, and OWW fabricated a beautiful remodel for a wine room.  With tiled barrel vaults, custom made … Continue reading →

Today is the second time that Flathead Valley Community College is offering our Intro to SketchUp class and we have filled all 12 seats.  We are also offering a 4 session Intermediate SketchUp class starting Oct 24 that already has … Continue reading →

OTB Designworks is proud to announce a new concept in design and fabrication!  Using the latest in 3D modeling technology, combined with our 23 years of construction experience, we have the ability to encapsulate projects into a Virtual Build Environment, … Continue reading →

So Steve Hollander has unknown baking skills!  Check out the cake he made his wife; look familiar?  His observation that getting the roof lines correct was  difficult, to say the least, made me laugh.  Yep, bastard valleys are brutal even … Continue reading →

The hardest question we have to answer regularly is what do we do, exactly.  As our range of services and products is so varied and extensive, and their uses are so widespread, it becomes difficult to answer this in a … Continue reading →

OTB Designworks has been working with two incredible exciting companies recently, Innovative Timber Systems out of Whitefish MT and Old West Woods in Ohio.  With both companies, we are developing a new style of construction planning and design that takes … Continue reading →

Now that we have completed the valley set-up inside, and and have installed all necessary bearing points outside, we could now start putting the two systems together.  The process starts by flying in the three common valleys and placing them … Continue reading →

I am teaching an Introduction to SketchUp modeling at the Community College tomorrow.  This 4 hour seminar prepares students for taking the 4 session, more advanced class I will be teaching this Fall.  This is the first time the course … Continue reading →

How long I have waited to be able to say that the two wings are complete!  All of the common rafters have been cut into their final positions and we will now be shifting our concentration to the common valley … Continue reading →

After a month of set-up, scribing, and cutting, we have completed the Common Valley System, in the shop.  The 3 common valleys, 2 ridges, and myriad common jack rafters are now ready to be taken down and then joined with … Continue reading →