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Timber Framing Events & Member News
The American College of the Building Arts hosted the 2007 Masters of the Building Arts Festival to showcase the skills and artistry of master artisans in the building arts. The festival was open to the public and Timber Framers Guild members were there. Photos.
A group of 24 VMI cadets and local timber framers raised a gazebo and pergola for Liberty Park in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Our report.
Kezurou-kai 2005: Guild members traveled to Japan on a 12-day tour organized by Hida Tool & Hardware. Photos.
 
The Guild joined the School of Building Arts (SoBA) and other preservation-minded organizations to sponsor a free festival focusing on stone carving, carpentry, ironwork, masonry, timber framing, and plasterwork. More.
The 2004 VMI project, under the direction of Grigg Mullen, was to build the carriage for a cannon at Fort Sumter. Paul Magann sends photos of the project.
Gould Farm's 90th Anniversary Celebration also included a Barn Dedication on Oct. 18, 2003, in Monterey, Mass. The barn, which was cut and raised by numerous Guild and community volunteers over a two-week period in July 2000, is being used as a harvest barn and meeting house.
From May 12-18, 2003 fifteen Guild members visited France on a timber framing tour of that marvelous country. Besides visiting cathedrals, barns, market halls and other historic (and new) timber framed structures, they also visited three schools for the compagnon du devoir, the fraternity of tradesmen whose tradition of apprenticeship training goes back to the Middle Ages.
The first group of timber framers from the U.S. have arrived in Germany, for training and instruction at the Gewerbe Academy, a Zimmermann training facility in Rottweil. This is the first of two such groups headed for Germany; the second group leaves in February.
The London Museum is hosting an exhibit called "Working Water: Roman Technology in Action." Built by UK timber framer Peter McCurdy's company, this giant timbered structure is a reconstruction of what archeologists and other experts believe the Romans used to lift water out of wells.
The Crane exhibition for Boston's Colleges of the Fenway had a Grand Opening May 9, 2003. The exhibition includes the Norwell Crane and the new Dedirot T Crane.
Two groups of timber framers from the U.S. completed their training and instruction at the Gewerbe Academy, a Zimmermann training facility in Rottweil, Germany.
Each year in what has become an annual tradition for Guild volunteers and the cadets at Virginia Military Institute is a spring timber framing project organized by VMI Professor Grigg Mullen. This year the project was laying out, cutting and raising a boat shed to cover a canal boat on display at a local park.
The Timber Framers Guild has been awarded a grant by the National Park Service - National Center for Preservation Technology and Training to collect and publish information and illustrate representative examples of heavy timber roof trusses that appear in traditional American timber framed buildings.
The Guild received a grant to document the wooden joinery that appears in traditional American timber framed buildings. Jack Sobon's series is now appearing in issues of Timber Framing.
Subscribe to the Mortise and Tenon, read about awards and other happenings in the UK.
Guild volunteers and VMI cadets at Virginia Military Institute cut a timber frame structure to cover the rifle range at the local Boy Scout camp.
Jack Sobon and Dave Carlon presented their annual week-long workshop at Hancock Shaker Village, in which participants used only hand tools to cut a 14' x 16' timber frame building.
The Guild is considering a project to restore a water-powered Austin sawmill in Kinmount, Ontario. The Austin sawmill, a running water-powered mill until the mid-1970s, has survived fire, economic hardship, and some rebuilding in the past. A very active local coalition of concerned citizens have embraced a project to re-create the sawmill, add a public space, and build a park around it.
The 12' x 16' frame that was cut in the Guild Timber Framing course, then made an appearance at the 1999 Smithsonian Folklife Festival for two weeks, found its permanent home in Connecticut. Read on.
The Guild demonstrated timber framing techniques to visitors at the 1999 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and raised a 12' x 16' timber frame shed on the National Mall in Washington, DC. In June 2000, the New Hampshire Council on the Arts and other agencies restaged the New Hampshire exhibition for the state's residents. The Guild was there.
In 1999, some 15 to 20 undergraduates from Boston's Massachusetts College of Art, with Guild members' instruction, cut, assembled and raised a 12'x16' timber frame.
The Massachusetts College of Art-built 12'x16' timber frame serves as a touring demonstration of timber frame construction at the Log Home and Timber Frame Home Show in Worcester, Mass.
Guild friends and neighbors volunteered their time to raise and panel the timber frame office that Joel McCarty is using in his duties as Guild Co-Executive Director. The 12' x 16' frame was cut in a Guild workshop. Read on.
An unusual timber frame structure, destined for use as an artist studio and shop near Norwell, Mass., is a design that borrows from a combination of Roman tooth beam, medieval northern European timber frame, and 19th century American covered bridge construction. Read more.
Similar to Project Horizon, this workshop in 1999 had an international group of participants building a timber frame for use by children in Denmark. It was planned by Guild member Mikkel Johansen and of Bjørn Engtorp.
Organized by Palomar College Woodworking Director Chris Feddersohn, the course is one of the few fully accredited timber framing courses offered in the U.S. It concluded with a successful raising of the bell tower pavilion at the main entrance to Palomar College in San Marcos, California
Guild member Tom Barfield spent several months in 1999 working in Antarctica, and he shared with us his comments and photos. 
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TFG Board member Gordon Macdonald spent six weeks in the Antarctic, where an international team of experts worked to preserve and restore Sir Ernest Shackleton’s hut. 
Timber framers from around the world gathered in southern England to cut and raise a boathouse for a school on the banks of the River Thames July 5-16, 2003. On the Web: 