Historic American Timber Joinery

[watkins]

Dear All,

For those who have an interest in timber framing:

http://www.tfguild.org/joinery/joinery.html

parts 1 to 6 can be downloaded free. Also:

http://tfguild.stores.yahoo.net/tifrbo.html

The Standard for Design Of Timber Frame Structures can also be downloaded free. Lots of useful engineering stuff.

Regards,
Bob

[Gidon Yuval]

Bob, thank you so much!
What a great resource!

[watkins]

Dear Gidon,

My pleasure!

By the way, where are you located in Israel? I spent a happy 6 months at Or-Haner http://www.jfqc.org/kibbutz2.htm in 1972 working as a volunteer. I remember the Kibbutz playing host to a group of Brazilians, and most of them attractive young women. Ahhh! Memories!!

Regards,
Bob

[Gidon Yuval]

I'm in Tel-Aviv.
It's a pity we don't have that much wood in Israel. Wood houses are rare in Israel because traditionaly, people built their homes from the materials they found around them and I this part of the world that means stone. But stone can't hold a candle to the insulating properties of wood and it's also much harder to work with. I wish we had vast forests of timber.
Oh well

[SchreiberBike]

Bob, Those are fascinating to look over. It's like looking into the minds of the craftsmen who built up those techniques over thousands of years of trial and error, intuition and a bit of science.

I don't anticipate building in timber frame, or even having access to timbers like that, but if I do, I'll know where to go.

Thanks,

[watkins]

John,

Yes, it is great resource, and something to model when one wants to relax but cannot think of anything really useful to do.

Regards,
Bob