Mortise & Tenon: Learning to Timber Frame In Five Days
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- Опубліковано 29 бер 2024
- Everybody has an urge to build. Doing so builds competence in all areas of life. This video highlights our Purely Post & Beam course in which students design, engineer, cut and raise a 24' x 24' timber frame over the course of 5 days.
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I'm watching you from the other side of the world. And although I am not an American, I feel this warmth and the spirit of pure creativity...
Thank you so much for watching!
I took this course. It was one of the best things I’ve done in my life. Learned a ton and it was a wonderful experience. These people are the salt of the earth!
I took the class back in 2012 and have fond memories of the rewarding experience. Not only did I learn a lot and get to meet some very nice people, it was wonderful being in Maine and exploring the coastal area. In 2013, The Shelter Institute raised a 24' x 24' timber frame for us in West Virginia and we still receive many compliments on it to this day when we have guests over. Overall, the class was excellent and the team at The Shelter Institute represent the finest in customer service; something that is unfortunately lacking in many businesses these days.
Thank you so much for the kind words John! We have great memories from your build and the trip down to West Virginia!
Huge props to the marketing department for excellent questions and film! This is really good advertising and that coming from a 2020 Yestermorrow D/B semester student!
Thank you so much, they absolutely nailed it!
I took a 3 week course at Heartwood in Washington MA. I will follow you!
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Built my three story gambrel timber frame house. Tin roof and walls inside and out covered with stone or tile. Solarium on the third. My journey is one timber at a time by myself. No living trees cut for this project. Mill windfalls or snags. Not easy, but it’s still mine. Working as a labourer at the same time… well perseverance prevails.
Incredible, congratulations!!
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This production is so well done. Incredibly inspirational! One of these days, Denise and I will take the class. Huge fans of the Hennin’s and Shelter Institute family and all they so and represent. Bravo!
Thank you so much for watching and for the kind words!
the tour of built build should start again one would think scene now most people know were all were trolled to the max .but i do understand most people will not know a lot of the details of what and but the why is clear .Be blessed and thanks for theses courses
I love what you do. Not sure I'll have the chance to ever attend one of the classes, much as I wish I could, but I've learned a lot from what you share on the channel. Thought I'd mention how I've gone through a similar journey that some of the students here mentioned in the video: wanting to slow down and learn new skills. I've transitioned from a power tool woodworker to a traditional hand tool woodworker for that very reason. It's a lot of fun seeing how the same skill sets and principles scale right on up to timber framing: layout, sharpening, chiseling, chopping, dovetails, mortise and tenons. I see timber frames as one big woodworking project, and it's fascinating to see the overlap with what I do on a smaller scale. Something I hope the students also take away: when you have your skills developed, it's shocking just how fast the "slow" way is of doing things. As you've show in other videos, the scale of work you do in short stretches of time is incredible.
So true!
SOOOO Jelly of those learners, me I am just out here learning by trial and error... Love seeing that ideas that started at the tail end of hippy days are still making sense, I am a child from '69 and I WISH this stuff had ever been common knowledge when I was in school.
Just started making the frame for my house here in Great Britain. Chisels are nice and sharp. I milled up all the 8" beams last year and they're stacked in my workshop. Using exactly the same methods as yours, with plasterboard (Gypsum) between the sips and frame. I bought the Ted Benson books many years ago but your videos are very helpful, thanks!
Thank you!! Best of luck in your build!
I'm so glad I found this channel.....thanks.
Thank you for watching!
I'm getting kind of emotional just watching this! I can't wait until I'm ready for this class in about 1.5 years!
This would be a great thing for parents and teens to do together.
Big time! We do get a lot of family members taking the course together and it is always a pleasure
@@ShelterInstitute Do you have a minimum age for attendees?
Amazing!!!! What an incredible experience.
Thank you!! It is such a blast every time
Watching these videos really makes me wish November could come sooner. See you guys then!
See you then!!
Such an awesome video and experience!!!
Thank you for attending this class and for watching!
i'm watching with envy and anticipation; envy that i can't take the hands on class and anticipation because you will be raising my little Timber Frame for me this Spring ! can't wait.
We very much look forward to your project!
Is it cypress you are using, Alaskan Yellow Cedar? I have access to Monterey Cypress (Macrocarpa) here in New Zealand and in suitable dimensions. Is Monterey Cypress suitable to be used for timber frame at this scale??
We are using eastern white pine timbers in this video. Monterey cypress has slightly better fiber stress value and is also slightly stiffer so it would be a suitable wood, particularly if you have access to long and large timbers. Monterey is the largest of the cypress family which bodes well for you. It is not indigenous to NZ but having been introduced around 1860 it has a good track record in your climate!
Really enjoyed taking the class. How to make a grown man cry? Drop a chisel on concrete after sharpening it for four hours. 😂
Yup that’ll do it!
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I’ve done the online course, but I’d still like to do this in person.
We would love to host you!
God Bless you
Brilliant story - I'd love to join this course.
2025 registrations are now open!
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Thank you for watching!
Is there such a thing as an international timber frame convention, where carpenters from various traditions can meet up and exchange ideas and techniques? I'd love to see what comes out of a conference with Swedish, American, German, Swiss, Japanese, Korean and Chinese traditional framers.
This is awesome. The hell with toothpick construction. Timber frame is the only way!
Are they back to doing the classes in person?
We are! Check out our full schedule on our website!
Something most people don’t understand, is that a razor sharp tool is safer than a dull one, because you use far less effort to make the cut and so dangerous over travel is minimised.
Big time!
I was a Timber Framer in the 70's, 80's and 90's, what happened to the Beetle? I see you use sledgehammers.????
We do use sledgehammers! If we are using a sledge on an interior facing timber we use a block to not harm the timber
The tornadoes that have ripped through the country lately have shown that conventional home building is pitiful compared to the timber frame.
with todays tools finally getting affordable for this work. the teaching will soon die out.
A tool is useless or even dangerous without the knowledge of how to properly use and maintain it (to say nothing of architectural and engineering knowledge).
Affordable tools are not a replacement for knowledge on how to build. You still have to know what the tool is supposed to do.
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