Learn to Timber Frame

Author: Will Beemer
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1612126693
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
The first guide to timber framing written specifically for beginners! Expert Will Beemer takes you through the entire process from start to finish, beginning with timber sourcing and ending with a finished building. Using full-color photos, detailed drawings, and clear step-by-step instructions, Beemer shows you exactly how to build one small (12ʹ x 16ʹ) timber-frame structure — suitable for use as a cabin, workshop, or studio. He also explains how to modify the structure to suit your needs and location by adding a loft, moving doors or windows, changing the roof pitch, or making the frame larger or smaller. You’ll end up with a beautiful building as well as solid timber-framing skills that you can use for a lifetime.

The Timber Framing Book

Author: Stewart Elliott
Publisher: Alan C Hood
ISBN: 9780911469325
Category : Wooden-frame houses
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This is a thorough and profusely illustrated guide to building a timber-frame house. Grounded in ancient tradition, timber-frame construction is admirably suited to fulfill today's need for durable, energy-efficient housing and other building needs. First published in 1977, this book is now in its ninth printing and is established as a classic in the field.

A Timber Framer's Workshop

Author: Steve Chappell
Publisher: Joiners Quarterly Magazin
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
"Portions of the manual are updated, expanded, and edited versions of articles which have previously appeared in Joiners' quarterly"--T.p. verso.

Timber Frame Construction

Author: Jack A. Sobon
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 161212321X
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Discover the satisfaction of making your own durable, economical, and environmentally friendly timber frame structures. Covering all aspects of timber frame construction, this practical guide is filled with easy-to-understand instructions, clear illustrations, and helpful photographs. With expert advice on selecting appropriate timber, necessary tools, safety considerations, joinery techniques, assembly, and raising, Jack Sobon and Roger Schroeder encourage beginners by offering complete plans for a small toolshed. Turn your dream of a timber frame house into a reality.

Roundwood Timber Framing

Author: Ben Law
Publisher: Permanent Publications
ISBN: 9781856230414
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
This definitive manual marks the birth of a new vernacular for the 21st century. Over 400 color photographs and step-by-step instructions guide you through the building of anything from a garden shed to your own woodland house. This practical how to book will unquestionably be a benchmark for sustainable building using renewable local resources and evolving traditional skills to create durable, ecological, and beautiful buildings.

Discovering Timber-framed Buildings

Author: Richard Harris
Publisher: Bloomsbury Shire Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description

Historic American Timber Joinery

Author: Jack Sobon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970664389
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
Second Edition

Timber Framing Fundamentals

Author: Kenneth Rower
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970664372
Category : Framing (Building)
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
"This volume collects or adapts more than 40 articles from Timber Framing, the quarterly journal of the Timber Framers Guild, to guide the reader through a number of questions that arise when planning, building or assessing a timber frame structure." -- Foreword.

The Craft of Modular Post & Beam

Author: James Mitchell
Publisher: Point Roberts, WA ; Vancouver : Hartley & Marks
ISBN: 9780881791310
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
Discusses the elements involved in building log homes, including design, wood, tools, joinery, and hewing methods.

Timberframe Plan Book

Author: Michael Morris
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN: 0879059761
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
Elegant in simplicity yet immensely strong, timberframe homes are highly sought after for their pleasing symmetry and their longevity. The Timberframe Plan Book is a hands-on guide to choosing the floor plan of a home builder's dream.Thirty plans-each containing professional tips-have been designed by some of the field's premier builders and designers. Vivid interior and exterior photographs celebrate the art of this centuries-old craft.