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. Autumn 2024, Woodchurch and Chichester.

Construction of a barn in Andover involving the Carpenter Fellowship, Summer 2021.

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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

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