![]() A timber frame workshop is an opportunity for a client to have some of the costs of construction offset by the volunteer labor of the students, as they practice their hand on saws, chisels, planes, and boring machines. The client was the the city of Waterbury, VT who’s building a new river-side dog park. ![]() The frame is 12′ x 16′, all cut from local timber and held fast with hand riven ash pegs. Written resources abound on how to build in this style, but nothing compares to personal instruction while you have a chisel in your hands, and a set of plans to build a structure for a real client. Students for this course came from as far as Ontario, Nebraska, and Alabama to get this hands on instruction. ![]() Josh and his co-instructor Skip Dewhirst taught a timber frame workshop at the Yestermorrow Design Build School in Warren last week, that culminated Saturday with the raising.Ĭheck out a news clip and article on the event here: Dogs Getting Some Shade at Waterbury Dog ParkĪ timber frame workshop encompasses learning the basics of reading plans, using traditional hand tools, and cutting mortise and tenon joinery. This first weekend in May, with enough UV light to finally kick off the annual tanning of the pasty New Englander, TimberHomes’ Josh Jackson basked in the promised heat amidst a hand raising in Waterbury, VT. ![]()
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