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Timber Framing Workshop | Event Type: | Conferences & Expos | | | | Company: | EcoNest | | Dates: | Sep 02 2008 - Sep 06 2008 | | Location: | Santa Fe, NM | | Address: | Santa Fe,
NM, | | | | Industry: | DES|CON | | Posted By: | UP world | | Reply: | Send Message | | | | Description: | This five-day workshop gives you hands-on experience in timber framing – a true craft. It offers you a unique opportunity to work with timbers as well as with others of like mind. For some, this experience could be a doorway into the rich world of wooden architecture and perhaps the beginnings of a career in timber framing. Regardless of your intent, the process of transforming a tree into one of the “bones” of a home is magical. When you craft wood, you in turn are crafted. Here is an invitation to explore a two thousand year-old technology - the joiners craft!
Program Overview
You will review the history of timber framing and contemporary practices used to build modern timber frame homes. Students will learn the basic principles of crafting a timber frame and will develop the following skills:
Wood selection: Learn how to chose the right timber in the correct orientation to transform a tree into a structural member of a home
Shop drawings: Make sense of complex shop drawings by learning to understand the details and dimension lines necessary to producing accurate work
Layout: Learn how to take information from drawings and accurately and efficiently transfer them to the timbers before cutting.
Joinery: Learn to precisely hand cut mortise and tenon joinery.
Assembly: Learn to mate joints with wooden pegs and assemble timbers into bents and walls.
Raising: Enjoy the experience of raising timbers and watch as your hand-work becomes the bones of a home.
This workshop is typically scheduled for the week before an EcoNest Clay/Straw Workshop and serves to prepare the timber frame for the upcoming EcoNest home construction.
Please see the Calendar for dates, rates and discounts for all of our 2008 EcoNest workshops and seminars.
Instructors
Robert Laporte and EcoNest Team Members
When registering for this module separately, the price is $640. per person, $1150. per couple.
Prices include NM state tax and a 10% discount when couples register together for any of our workshops.
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