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Timber Frame Construction: All About Post-and-Beam Building Jack Sobon - $20 (nanoose bay)
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Discover the satisfaction of making your own durable, economical, and environmentally friendly timber frame structures. Covering all aspects of timber frame construction, this practical guide is filled with easy-to-understand instructions, clear illustrations, and helpful photographs. With expert advice on selecting appropriate timber, necessary tools, safety considerations, joinery techniques, assembly, and raising, Jack Sobon and Roger Schroeder encourage beginners by offering complete plans for a small toolshed. Turn your dream of a timber frame house into a reality.
From the Back Cover
If you have only dreamed about the beauty of building with timbers, this book will open your eyes. It will convince you that this method is not only practical today for homes and other buildings, but often is less expensive than "stick building."
Timber frame builder Jack Sobon and writer Roger Schroeder offer a book for builders as well as those wishing to have the work done for them. Here is practical how-to for both beginners and experienced carpenters who want to try this method. It offers:
- The basics of timber framing.
- How to design for strength and beauty.
- How to combine modern tools and time-tested methods.
- A starter project: How to build a 12 x 16 garden toolshed.
- Dozens of illustrations and photos that make it all easy to understand.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1 Timber Framing: Then and Now
Chapter 2 The Timber Frame
Chapter 3 Joinery
Chapter 4 The Wood
Chapter 5 Designing for Strength
Chapter 6 Building the Shed
Chapter 7 Assembly and Raising
Chapter 8 Closing In
Chapter 9 Projects
Chapter 10 Timber Frame Revivers
Appendix
Index
Softcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Garden Way Publishing 1984 first edition
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 1.4 x 27.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 590 g
As new condition
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