Oak timber framing: jowl posts
Monday 28 April - Friday 2 May 2025
This course teaches students how to frame timbers together to ensure the correct lengths, bevels and allowances and carry out double-cut scribing, string-line and plumb rule layouts.
During the workshop the primary timbers - posts, plates, beams and cills - will be lined-out, scribed, cut and fitted. The course will focus on historic tools and techniques and aims to develop the students’ knowledge and experience of the specific problems facing the historic carpenter framing with “wet” or “green” oak.
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Monday 28 April - Friday 2 May 2025
This course teaches students how to frame timbers together to ensure the correct lengths, bevels and allowances and carry out double-cut scribing, string-line and plumb rule layouts.
During the workshop the primary timbers - posts, plates, beams and cills - will be lined-out, scribed, cut and fitted. The course will focus on historic tools and techniques and aims to develop the students’ knowledge and experience of the specific problems facing the historic carpenter framing with “wet” or “green” oak.
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