A Timber Framers Workshop

A Timber Framers Workshop
Joinery, Design & Construction of Traditional Timber Frames

This 272 page workbook has become a classic treatise on traditional timber framing, and includes comprehensive in-depth technical information on the joinery, design and construction of Traditional Timber Frames in New England. Illustrated with over 500 photos and CAD drawings, it offers in-depth details on traditional timber framing and joinery design examples used extensively in Colonial New England from 1720 to 1860. This was the hay-day of a truly American style of timber framing. The practicality and ingenuity of the New England spirit is beautifully reflected in the systems of joinery and structure employed in these vernacular structures, The success of which, is evidenced in the many thousands of common house and barns that proliferate throughout Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont to this day.

The joinery and structural systems described in this book are all examples discovered and cataloged by the author's half decade of work repairing and renovating house and barns frames in the mid 1970's. There is nothing made up in this book. All of the examples of joinery and structural systems described in this book are all extant and common to the period, drawn in large-part from western Maine and New Hampshire. A common thread, however, runs throughout most of northern New England, where settlement began to expand out of the Massachusetts Bay into what was the new frontier.

Included are Frame Plans, design and engineering formulae, rule-of-thumb design and engineering guidelines, mechanical and physical properties of wood, shop setup, builder's math, joinery design criteria, practical timber framing tips, tools and more. If you are an architect, engineer, builder or an aspiring owner builder wishing to build your own timber frame, A Timber Framer's Workshop will provide the information you need.

ISBN 1-889269-00-X Cover Price $39.95