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Custom Steel Plates for Timber

To your timbers, cut from A36 steel

Steel plates designed to your own timbers: T plates, corner plates, splice plates, the truss plates for a king post or queen post truss (fan, strut fan, heel, collar tie, strut, king post, and peak), and plate washers. Pick a plate, enter your timbers as measured, and set its size, bolts, and ends. Each designer draws the plate and prices it as you go.

Custom design costs nothing extra: no design or setup fee, just the steel, priced by weight with shipping in the lower 48 built in. Every plate is laser cut from A36 steel in 3/16", 1/4", 3/8", or 1/2" in our ISO 9001 shop in Texas, bare or with matte black powder coat. Looking for custom truss plates in a ready-drawn style? The same shapes come in six catalog collections for 3" to 12" timbers, from the Cornice to the Sierra. Before you choose bolt sizes, read the bolt spacing and edge distance guide.

01 In a truss

Where each plate goes

Every plate on the drawing you can design is a link to its designer. Pick a truss type to see the plates it takes.

Truss
King post with struts truss with Taiga plates, drawn from the cutting files
King post truss with Taiga plates, drawn from the cutting files
Struts, no king post truss with Taiga plates, drawn from the cutting files
Open truss with Taiga plates, drawn from the cutting files
Raised tie beam truss with Taiga plates, drawn from the cutting files

One truss needs

Counts are for both faces: plates go on in pairs.

One truss needs

Counts are for both faces: plates go on in pairs.

One truss needs

Counts are for both faces: plates go on in pairs.

One truss needs

Counts are for both faces: plates go on in pairs.

One truss needs

Counts are for both faces: plates go on in pairs.

02 Plates

Every plate you can design

Each as it opens, drawn to one scale. Set its timbers, size, bolts, and ends to suit yours, and see it priced as you go.

03 Heel

Heel plate or collar tie plate?

A rafter and a tie beam meet in one of two ways, and each takes its own plate.

04 Collections

Six collections, drawn to one scale.

Each collection’s king post truss plate at 12/12, from its cutting file. Each collection fits a range of timber widths.

12" at this scale.

Heel plate or collar tie plate?

How do the rafter and the tie beam meet in your truss?