![]() The aim is to pay tribute to the astounding craftsmanship of the cathedral's original builders and to ensure that the centuries-old art of hand-fashioning wood lives on. The use of hand tools to rebuild the roof that flames turned into ashes in 2019 is a deliberate, considered choice, especially since power tools would undoubtedly have done the work more quickly. "We probably are in some ways thinking the same things.” He says there are times when he's whacking mallet on chisel that he finds himself thinking about medieval counterparts who were cutting "basically the same joint 900 years ago.” “It’s a little mind-bending sometimes," says Peter Henrikson, one of the carpenters. For them, working with hand-axes to fashion oak beams has been like stepping back in time. Carpenters building a new timber frame for the fire-ravaged roof of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral are using the same tools and techniques as their medieval predecessors. Jeffrey Schaeffer/AP Show More Show Less 17 of18 A carpenter uses an axe to cut a wooden beam for the new roof of the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, Thursday, May, 25, 2023, near Angers, western France. Jeffrey Schaeffer/AP Show More Show Lessġ5 of18 16 of18 Chief architect Remi Froment holds the drawings of the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral he made in 2012 which are being used in part as the basis for the rebuilding the roof, Thursday, May, 25, 2023, near Angers, western France. The use of hand-tools to rebuild the roof that flames turned into ashes in 2019 is a deliberate, considered choice, especially since power tools would undoubtedly have done the work more quickly. Jeffrey Schaeffer/AP Show More Show Less 11 of18 Jean-Louis Georgelin, the retired French Army general who is overseeing the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral reconstruction, holds a tool used to rebuild the roof of the Paris monument, Thursday, May, 25, 2023, near Angers, western France. 9 of18 10 of18 Jean-Baptiste Bonhoure, head of Atelier Perrault, a carpenter and wooden work company, poses next to wooden beams Thursday, May, 25, 2023, near Angers, western France.
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