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Title: A Timber Framer's Workshop
by Steve K. Chappell

Paperback: 252 pages
Publisher: Fox Maple Press; 2 edition (Jul 1998)
Language English
ISBN: 188926900X

The book breaks the timber framer's art, and science, into discrete chapters, each with a clear focus and gives each adequate coverage. All recommendations given in the text are well supported by the "whys and wherefores" and the more technically inclined will find thorough analyses of each aspect of frame design and practice.

 
 

Title: Oak-framed Buildings
by Rupert Newman

Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd (22 Dec 2005)
Language English
ISBN: 1861083793

This is a practical book on the technique of timber-frame construction and a source of inspiration to anyone who appreciates beautiful buildings. Full-colour photographs show projects by the author and others both complete and under construction, and structural details are clearly explained both in photographs and in three-dimensional drawings.

 
 

Title: Green Oak in Construction
by Peter Ross, Christopher Mettem, Andrew Holloway

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: TRADA Technology Ltd (Dec 2006)
Language English
ISBN: 1900510456

A highly illustrated technical guide celebrating the use of oak in the building of modern structures and showing how to achieve excellence in practice. Its key features are: eleven case studies demonstrating best practice and inspirational design; design data and grading rules, compiled by an expert author team; and, numerous colour photographs and diagrams.

 
 

Title: Natural Timber Frame Homes
by Wayne Bingham, Jerod Pfeffer

Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith Inc; 1 edition (1 Jun 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1586858602

For those inspired not by a technology-governed and energy-intensive world, but instead developed organically in response to the places in which we live. Through beautiful photography and informed text, it explores the quiet splendour of traditional timberframe homes built with straw bales and plaster or clay-finished walls.

 
 

Title: Timber Frame Construction: All About Post and Beam Building
by Jack Sobon, Roger Schroeder

Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Storey Books,US (25 Oct 1984)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0882663658

Discusses the basic tools and techniques of timber framing and provides instructions for building timber frame houses, sheds, barns, and garages..