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You will review the history of timber framing and contemporary practices used to build modern timber frame homes. Students will learn the basic principles of crafting a timber frame and will develop the following skills:
Wood selection: Learn how to chose the right timber in the correct orientation to transform a tree into a structural member of a home
Shop drawings: Make sense of complex shop drawings by learning to understand the details and dimension lines necessary to producing accurate work
Layout: Learn how to take information from drawings and accurately and efficiently transfer them to the timbers before cutting.
Joinery: Learn to precisely cut mortise and tenon joinery with hand and power tools.
Sharpening: Using Japanese water stones, gain proficiency in giving your chisels, slicks and planes a supreme cutting edge.
Assembly: Learn to mate joints with wooden pegs and assemble timbers into bents and walls.
Raising: Participate in the experience of erecting a timberframe and see your patient hand-work become a three-dimensional reality.