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Learn to Timber Frame

Craftsmanship, Simplicity, Timeless Beauty
Learn to Timber Frame
Will Beemer By (author)
Jack A. Sobon Foreword by
9781612126685
Product ID:  622668
$34.95
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2016/05/03
Storey Publishing, LLC

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8.3 X 9.6 in
192 pg


HOUSE & HOME / Design & Construction
HOUSE & HOME / House Plans
HOUSE & HOME / Do-It-Yourself / Carpentry

Description

The elegant simplicity of timber frame construction is made accessible to all levels of builders with step-by-step building instructions for one small, easy-to-build timber frame cabin, along with plans for modifying it to suit particular needs and locations.


Author Bio

Will Beemer is a founding member of the Timber Framers Guild and served as Co-Executive Director for 11 years. He’s been a builder for over 40 years and an educator in the building trades for 30 of those. With his wife, Michele, he owns and operates the Heartwood School for the Homebuilding Crafts in Washington, Massachusetts, which has been teaching courses in timber framing, home building and other trades since 1978. Beemer has taught timber framing around the world, including in Patagonia (with Rocky Mountain Workshops), at Palomar College in California, at North House Folk School in Minnesota, and through numerous Guild workshops and projects. He has authored many articles on basic and advanced timber framing techniques and is a regular contributor to Timber Framing (the quarterly journal of the Guild) and Fine Homebuilding and has also written for Wood Design & Building and Joiner’s Quarterly.


Jack A. Sobon is an architect and builder specializing in timber-framed buildings, as well as the coauthor of Timber Frame Construction and author of Build a Classic Timber Frame Home. A founding director of the Timber Framer’s Guild of North America and founder of the Traditional Timber Frame Research and Advisory Group, Sobon has devoted his 38-year career to understanding the craft of traditional timber framing. Using only traditional hand tools, he has framed and erected over 50 structures. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and teaches and consults nationally on traditional building structures and timber-framing techniques.