Timber framing
I
know from what I have heard, that timber framing, as a craft,
differenciates from carpentry, joinery and cabinet making. I couldn't
explain how, but both words can give a quite accurate definition : the
timber framer does only the structure, the frame of a building, using
wood exclusively. One small but major detail is the use of the pegged
draw-bore : tenon
and mortese are pulled and locked together by a slight offset in their
respective peg holes. When the peg is driven through the assembleled
tenon and mortese, it tightens the joint.
Draw-bore originates during the medieval period (which
is quite vague), in all likelyhood around the 11th century and is, from my opinion the best way to joint two pieces of wood together.
Small, entirely hand-hewn cabin, split shingles out of very local sweet chesnut. Still in progress Summer 2024, Woodchurch and Chichester.
Construction of a barn in Andover involving the Carpenter Fellowship, Summer 2021.
Opened workshop with hewn curved timber in Marnay Sur Seine, France, Spring 2017
Extension of an existing stone and clay bricks building for a bakery in Marnay Sur Seine, France, Summer 2018
Extension of a house in Woodchurch, Dolmen Conservation, Summer 2022
Lofting (hewn and sawn timbers are laid level and plumb on a drawing on the floor) and scribing of a small extension for the toilets of the café, Marnay-Sur-Seine, France, spring 2018.
Small camping shelter in douglas, Cornwall, summer 2022
