Timberframe Books

Roundwood Timber Framing

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Building Naturally Using Local Resources
by Ben Law

This definitive manual marks the birth of a new vernacular for the 21st century. Over 400 colour photographs and step-by-step instructions guide you through the building of anything from a garden shed to your own woodland house.

Build a Classic Timber Framed House

by Jack Sobon

bb305 Build a Classic Timber Framed House

One of the better known and more distinctive figures in the timber-framing revival, Jack Sobon knows how to make home building affordable with economical hand tools.

Building the Timber Frame House
The Revival of a Forgotten Craft

by Tedd Benson with James Gruber. (illustrations by Jamie Page)

#bb310 Building the Timber Frame House

Belongs in every timber framer's library. Short history of  timber framing and a fully illustrated discussion of the different kinds of joinery, assembly of timbers, and raising of the frame.

Timber Frame Construction
All About Post and Beam Construction

By Jack Sobon and Roger Schroeder

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If you have only dreamed about the beauty of building with timbers, this book will open your eyes. It will convince you that this method is not only practical today for homes and other structures, but often is less expensive than "stick" building.

The Timber Frame Home
Design, Construction, Finishing

by Tedd Benson

bb320 The Timber-Frame Home

Provides a comprehensive reference to timber-frame house design, written by one of the nation's foremost builders of this type of house.
 

Timberframe Plan Book

by Michael Morris and Dick Pirozzolo

bb322 Timberframe PlanBook

Hands-on guide to choosing the floor plan for the home of your dreams. Handpicked by some of the field's premier builders and designers.

Softbound / 127 Pages.

Timberframe
The Art and Craft of Post and Beam

Timberframe
by Tedd Benson      Forward by Norm Abram

bb321 Timberframe - Art and Craft

Tedd Benson divides Timberframe: The Art and Craft of the Post-and-Beam Home into four sections--"In the Country," "On the Water," "In the Mountains," and "In Addition"--to reveal how the proud owners of timberframe dwellings strive to make those architectural elements fit their surroundings.

Timber Frame Construction
All About Post and Beam Building

By Jack Sobon and Roger Schroeder

bb168 Timber Frame Construction

If you have only dreamed about the beauty of building with timbers, this book will open your eyes. It will convince you that this method is not only practical today for homes and other structures, but often is less expensive than "stick" building.

A Timber Framers Workshop
Joinery Design and Construction of Traditional Timber Frames

by Steve Chappell

bb301 A Timber Framer's Workshop

Steve Chappel is a builder at heart and a teacher by nature. First encountering Timber Framing in 1970, he has been building, teaching and writing about the craft ever since.

As founder and director of Fox Maple School of Traditional Building, Chappell has instructed hundreds of individuals over the past 15 years through hands-on workshops from Maine to California.

Timber Frame Houses

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Timber-Frame Houses

Taunton Press-various authors

31 articles taken from the first 10 years of Fine Homebuilding includes articles by leading teachers ad practitioners of the craft.