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 enlarge | Author: Steve K. Chappell
Publisher: Joiners Quarterly Magazin
Category: Book
List Price: $30.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 252718
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 252
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 188926900X
Dewey Decimal Number: 624
EAN: 9781889269009
ASIN: 188926900X
Publication Date: July 1, 1998
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 An invaluable, reader-friendly how-to guide for the novice. February 3, 2000
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
Timber framing has been an essential part of our building and architectural culture since the Middle Ages. It remains as one of constructions most enduring forms, not only because of its intrinsic beauty, but because it is a pure and complete structural system. In A Timber Framer's Workshop: Joinery, Design & Construction Of Traditional Timber Frames, Steve Chappell covers every aspect of the process timber framing including joinery, design, construction, frame plans, tools, timber and wood, technology, engineering, builders math, and goes on to offer a wealth of tips, tricks, and techniques. A Timber Framer's Workshop is exceptionally well written and will prove an invaluable introduction for the novice, with much to commend it to even experienced architects, construction crews, and specialty timber framers.
From Theory to Practice and Back Again February 1, 2000
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
This is a serious book...for serious timberframers and those who seriously aspire to become a timberframer or build their own timber frame house. My copy of the 1st edition was passed out to the participants of a 1998 onsite Fox Maple timber frame workshop in High Rolls, New Mexico. It served as our 'bible' as we selected, planed, laid out, cut, chiseled, mortised, fastened, and erected the timber frame members for the Robinson's house overlooking a spectacular mountian valley. The workshop manual served as our daytime reference and our nightime reading. After the workshop and to this day, when I reread the manual, it serves to recapture many memorable moments of successes and screw ups. But, more importantly, it gave this reviewer the fundamental information I needed to decide to build my own timber frame house and to invite Fox Maple to Stuart Island, Washington in August, 1999 for another workshop where the 2nd Edition was again distributed to the workshop participants. Steve Chappell is a master craftsman and teacher. He is a passionate advocate for timber framing and a wants to infect and educate the reader with the spirit of working with big pieces of wood and the art and science of creating structures which will withstand the rigors of time and use. I consider the 'Timber Framer's Workshop' a valuable addition to my library because it delves deeply into the "whys" of timber framing with lots of illustrations of the "hows" to support the theory. Chappell minimizes the use of photos except to clarify the reader's understanding of favorable results or competent practices. Don't be frightened off my Chappell's use of and illustration of mathematics. You may have a similar experience to mine, ie. I more fully understand why high school geometry and trigonometry were important.
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