posted 2 years ago
You can, but most timber frames use mortise and tenon joinery. They do use dovetails on the joists, but your plan does not show them.
I also noticed you have a lot of joinery in your plan. At only 24 feet, why not just get 24 ft beams, do your corners and then mortise in your center carting beam. You would reduce your jointers work by 2/3 and have a much more ridged structure? With a frame that is kind of required.