Timber Framing & Timber Construction Books

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Timber Framing Books

• A Timber Framer's Workshop: Joinery, Design & Construction of Traditional Timber Frames
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-Steve K. Chappell / Paperback 252 pages / Published January 2000
This excellent well written workbook covers in detail every aspect of of timber frame design and construction. Includes design, joinery, construction techniques, tool selection and use. Plus tips, tricks, and techniques. Includes over 230 detailed CAD drawings, illustrations, and photographs.
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• Principals of Timber Design For Architects and Builders ~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours
-Don A. Halperin, et al / Paperback 416 pages / Published August 1994
A text primarily for architects, builders, and engineers that use engineered structural wood, rather than squared or round natural logs. Covers the common types of timber construction using beams, diagrams, columns, and trusses. Also contains studies of joists, special beams, and arches. Includes studies of joists, special beams, and arches, and detailed studies on seismic situations and provisions.
Appendices offer tables on lumber properties, moment calculations, and wood species and specific gravities.
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• Building With Logs ~Usually Ships Within 2-3 Days
-B. Allan MacKie / Paperback 128 pages, 8th Edition
Published March 1997
The first edition of this excellent book launched modern log house building. This 8th Edition covers everything on building a fine log home. Covers site selection, planning the home, obtaining logs, foundations, hewing logs and working with a broad axe and other tools, erecting and constructing the log structure, and finishing the complete home.
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• Timber Framing Book ~Usually Ships Within 24 hours
-Elliott Wallas, Stewart Elliott, Eugenie Wallas
Paperback 169 pages / Published December 1991
This excellent instruction manual is one of the first published about timber framing. This book covers the basics in detail with illustrations and black and white photographs. Includes a Glossary of terms and Bibliography.
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• Build a Classic Timber-framed House: Planning & Design, Traditional Materials, Affordable Methods
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-Jack A. Sobon / Paperback 208 pages / Published February 1994
This book teaches how to design and plan building with the post and beam timber framing construction method. Well illustrated with photos.
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• Timber-Framed Buildings of England ~Usually Ships Within 2-3 Weeks
-R.J. Brown / Paperback 368 pages / Published July 1997
This book discusses several historic timber buildings from each period of English architecture dating back 600 years. Includes all types of medieval buildings, from houses, guild-halls, town halls, inns, mills, guildhalls, town markets, farm building and churches. Covers construction details for these building and the techniques used for their construction. Contains a chapter on repairing timberframed structures. Profusely illustrated with 380 line detailed drawings of construction details, including timberframing joinery.
Includes a bibliography and a 6 page Glossary.
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• Timber Frame Construction: All about Post-And-Bean Buildings
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-Jack A. Sobon, Roger Schroeder / Paperback 208 pages / Published June 1984
Explains the basics of post-and-beam timber-frame construction in terms that the beginner can understand. Here is practical how-to book for both beginners and experienced wood workers.
Covers the basics of timber framing, designing for strength and beauty, construction techniques and details, timber selection and preparation. Dozens of illustrations and photographs supporting the text making the construction techniques easy to understand. Also covers how-to combine modern tools with time-tested construction methods.
Includes a starter project: How to build a 12 x 16 garden toolshed.
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• The Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages ~Usually Ships Within 1-2 Business Days.
-Raphael and J. Authur Brandon / Paperback 104 pages
An old English architectural classic text. Well illustrated with perspective and working drawings and drawings of some of the finest surviving church roofs.
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• The Medieval English Domestic Timber Roof: A Handbook of Roof Types
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-M.R.Bismanis / Paperback 246 pages / Published July 1987
American University Studies IX, History volume 25
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• English Historic Carpentry ~Usually Ships Within 2-3 Days
-Cecil A. Hewett / Paperback 338 pages / Published October 1997
An excellent text for the serious student and builder who needs an accurate detailed source of English timber carpentry methods. With numerous illustrations and photographs Hewitt covers all aspects of this craft, including timber and wood joints, door and windows, walls and roofs, and more. Methods of construction and assembly of the timber framed building is explained in detail. Plus decorative features.
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• Timber Buildings in Britain ~Special order
-R.W. Brunskill / Hardcover 239 pages / Published March 1986
This book explains the development of cruck construction, box-frame, post and beam construction. Covers roof construction details and problems. Building decorative work is also covered. An illustrated glossary with photographs and diagrams is included.
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• Timber Framing for the Rest of Us : A Guide to Contemporary Post and Beam Construction
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-Rob Roy / Paperback 134 pages / Published April 2004
Traditional timber framing employs the use of finely crafted jointing and wooden pegs, requiring a high degree of craftsmanship and training, as well as much time and expense. However, this practical and comprehensive guide describes the timber framing methods used by most contractors, farmers and owner-builders-methods that use modern metal fasteners, special screws and common sense building principles to accomplish the same goal in much less time. This book describes in depth these more common fastening methods. Includes everything an owner-builder needs to know about building strong and beautiful structural frames from heavy timbers.
Topics include:


• The historical background of timber framing
• Crucial design and structural considerations
• Procuring timbers-including different woods and recycled materials
• Understanding foundations, roofs and in-filling considerations
• Defining the common fasteners

A detailed case study of a timber frame project from start to finish completes along with a useful appendix of span tables and a bibliography.
Includes over 200 photographs.
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• Building the Timber Frame House: The Revival of A Forgotten Craft
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-T. Benson, James Gruber, Jamie Page / Paperback 211 pages / Published March 1986
This excellent guide has helped to start, build and finish many new timber framed houses. Covers the basic knowledge and techniques of building a timber framed house. Including a short history of timber framing and a detailed discussion, with illustrations, of the different kinds of joinery, construction and raising of the frame. There are also detailed sections on designs, materials, house plans, site development, foundation laying, insulation, tools, and methods.
Includes illustrations and photos.
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• Timber-Frame House: Design, Construction, Finishing
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-T. Benson / Hardcover 234 Pages / Published May 1997
This book is an excellent comprehensive guide that covers the complete process of building the modern timber framed house. Includes 130 illustrations and more than 140 full color photographs.
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• The Timberframe Plan Book
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-Michael Morris, Dick Pirozzolo / Paperback 128 pages / Published September 2000
This book is loaded with outstanding pictures of timber framed homes. An excellent source of ideas for planning a timberframed house.
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• Timberframe Interiors
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-Dick Pirozzolo, Linda Corzine / Hardcover 192 pages / Published September 2000
This book provides some interesting concepts and helpful suggestions for planning the interior of a timberframed home.
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• TimberFrame House: The Art and Craft of the Post-And-Beam Home
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-T. Bensen, Norm Abram, Jamie Salomon / Hardcover 240 pages / Published September 1999
This book, while not a how-to build book, is quite useful for the planning stage. The descriptive text and the outstanding photographs showcase many great timber frame homes. Includes illustrations and over 400 full color photographs.
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• The Craft of Modular Post-And-Beam
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-James Mitchell / Paperback 368 pages / Published December 1997
This book may well be the "Bible" of post and beam log construction. Covers in excellent detail basic to advanced post and beam design and construction. From house design, foundations, floors, walls, doors and windows, and an extensive chapter on roof design and construction. Explains log hewing with a broad axe and the use of other log shaping tools. Covers log joinery in detail. Includes hundreds of illustrations, a portfolio of color pictures of post and beam joinery, 6 appendixes, Glossary, and Bibliography.
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• The Repair of Historic Timber Structures
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-David Yeomans / Paperback 194 pages / Published October 2003
This comprehensive book is an indispensable guide for those involved in the structural assessment and repair of timber in buildings. The book covers the repair of historic timber structures and takes a practical approach and discusses two types of structure. These are the oak-framed buildings dating from the Middle Ages, which still survive in some numbers, and the timber elements of masonry buildings from the late seventeenth century.
Provides a simple analysis of typical structures to show the kinds of stresses that might be encountered, and some simple calculations are introduced to give a basic idea of the nature and magnitude of the forces. Methods of repair are then discussed and a brief guide is also provided to the survey of historic buildings containing these structures. This comprehensive guide is an invaluable resource for structural engineers, architects and carpenters, dealing with the repair and restoration of historic timber structures.
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• Timber Construction Manual ~Out of Print--Limited Availability--Try Our Used Book Dealers
-American Institute of Timber Construction / Hardcover 928 pages / Published April 1994
An authoritative and definitive reference book for timber designers, contractors, and others involved in timber construction that work with sawn lumber and structural glued laminated timbers. This book provides the latest technical data, information and recommendations for engineered timber structures.
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• Timber Construction for Architects and Builders
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-Eliot W. Goldstein / Hardcover 480 pages / Published November 1998
This comprehensive guide and reference book offers practical engineering, and construction guidance for architects, engineers, and builders involved in timber construction. Covers applications in nonresidential timber design and construction and provides the latest information on design, materials, codes, and applications. Including a chapter on fasteners, connectors and traditional joinery. Plus graphs, charts, illustrations and photographs.
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