ISBN: 9781889269009 Year Added to Catalog: 2000 Book Format: Paperback Book Art: b&w photographs, charts, plans, appendices, bibliography, glossary, index Number of Pages: 8 1/2 x 11, 271 pages Book Publisher: Fox Maple Press Old ISBN: 188926900X Release Date: January 20, 2000
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Joinery, Design & Construction of Traditional Timber Frames
Timber framing has been a part of our building culture and an inspiration to mankind since the Middle Ages. As we enter a new millennium, it is designed to remain as one of building's most enduring forms, not only because of its intrinsic beauty, but because it is a pure and complete structural system.
About the Author
Steve K. Chappell
Steve Chappell is a builder at heart and a teacher by nature. His journey in timber framing began on the northern coast of California in 1970, when, by chance, he joined a group of individuals in the construction of a joined timber frame. The group was led by a New Englander who grew up playing in his uncle's barn. Inspired by the experience, he moved to Maine in 1973 to study the buildings first hand. Building, teaching, and writing about the craft has been his passion ever since.
As the founder and director of Fox Maple School of Traditional Building, ...
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