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 […]
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Creativity
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 […]
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It’s probably safe to say that the vast majority of ceilings installed over timber frame roof systems are v-grooved tongue & groove boards, 6” or 8” wide. At least that’s the impression you’d get after leafing through timber frame magazines and books, or after visiting the web sites of timber frame companies. Natural, unfinished white […]
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