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Fox Maple's 2025 Timber Framing Workshop Series will be held this mid summer at the Fox Maple campus in Brownfield, Maine. Introductory Timber Framing 2025 Despite the heading, the Intro session is quite advanced in its concept and in the depth of material covered. This is an indepth and comprehensive course that lays the groundwork for all of the most essential aspects of timber framing from design considerations and parameters, engineering, joinery design, layout and execution, culminating with the raising of a full scale timber frame that the students literally design, layout and cut themselves. No just getting your toes wet in this workshop, this is a full-on submersion into the real world of timber framing. |
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The Bomberos de Nosara Community Building Workshop this past November, went off without a hitch. Students from away joined the local lifeguards to cut and erect the pentagonal frame on the main beach at Playa Guiones. |
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Advanced Timber Framing Workshop 2025 This workshop is not for the faint-of-heart. In this course, students will learn a systematic process to determine angular relationships for virtually any three dimensional form or structure, and how to then apply this information to the layout and execution of complex, compound joinery. The results are often truly amazing. Students must have completed the Fox Maple Intro TF workshop or have 2 years professional timber framing experience to qualify for this course. |
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Introducing the NEW 1624 Journeyman Square
The addition of the 1624 Journeyman will provide greater creativity and flexibility to any novice or professional roof framer looking to expand their horizon into crafting complex roof systems. With a 2 inch by 24 inch body and 1-1/2 inch by 16 inch tongue, the 1624 Journeyman will fit as well in your hand as in your tool box—and give you one more trick to pull out of your bag when facing challenging roof systems. |
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The Chappell Universal Framing Square!!! The Master Framer model #1824 and the Traveler model #1218 each have the unique, patented Chappell Universal Square rafter tables. The front side body has a comprehensive Equal Pitched Rafter Table for determining layout of hip and valley roof systems with common pitches ranging from 2/12 to 18/12. The front side tongues have Unequal Pitch Rafter Tables for unequal roof systems ranging from 4/12 to 15/12 with a main common pitch of 12/12. The back side bodies have comprehensive Rafter Tables for 6 and 8 sided polygons. The backside tongues have Unequal Pitch Rafter Tables for roof systems with a main roof of 9/12. Made of 13 gauge stainless steel with deep etched rulings and tables, this square will last a lifetime. The Master Framer, model #1824 has a body 2" x24" and a tongue of 1-1/2" x 18". The Traveler, model #1218 has a body 2" x 18" and a tongue of 1-1/2" x 12". This is Carpentry article about the Chappell Square |
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Time Flies! 2022 marks Upcoming in 2025 ADVANCED Timber Framing
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2025 T.F. Workshop Dates Set
August 4-16, 2025
Fox Maple Press
Joiners' Quarterly began publishing technical information about Timber Framing and Traditional Building in 1983.
Traditional timber framing and joinery techniques are at the core of the editorial content, but Natural Building is an important aspect because traditional building, by virtue of its pure and simple approach, is natural building. Timber, Straw, Wood & Clay; these were the traditional materials of the past, but today we think of them as Alternative Building. JQ offers insightful, technical articles about how to make traditional timber framing, combined with natural building systems, appropriate once again to build houses that will last for many generations. Craftsmanship is a key essential to any building endeavor. Articles in JQ and editorial content take this as the first essential, and present it as such. JQ Back issues offer a unique glimpse into the revival of timber framing through insightful articles. Booksellers looking to add a Fox Maple title to your catalog, click on the Booksellers link above.
The 2019 workshop project in Costa Rica, was a 12-sided, triple reciprocal roof structure in teak. The 12 posts were scribe fit to giant stones. Only the top 1/3 of the stones are visible in the photo. A large portion of the frame above was laid out using the 1218 Traveler Square.
