Every now and again a prospective client comes through our door with a set of drawings from another timber frame company. For one reason or another — why is usually a somewhat delicate matter — the prospective client decided they weren’t sure they wanted to work with that company. Or maybe they were really sure. […]

Better late than never, I suppose: Lancaster County Timber Frames won the Timber Frame Business Council’s “Naked Frame” Contest in late August this year. The contest rules pitted 14 different timber frame designs – as represented by photographs of the erected frame – against each other. Voting was open to all comers who voted for […]

  Back in the 70’s I taught a high school design class for which the prerequisites were two years of mechanical drawing and one semester each of wood shop and metal shop. The students in this design class would have limited access to both wood and the metal shop. I would present one problem at […]