Timber Frame Construction: All About Post-and-Beam Building

Let me start by saying: I bought this book thinking I’d casually learn how to build a quaint little garden shed. What I didn’t expect was to be spiritually awakened by mortise and tenon joints.This book is not just about timber framing. It’s a sacred text disguised as a construction manual. The illustrations? So clear, I swear they whispered ancient secrets into my calloused hands. The step-by-step guidance? Like being personally mentored by a wise, flannel-wrapped sage who smells faintly of cedar and sawdust.I went from “What’s a chisel?” to “Hand me the drawbore pin, I’m raising this frame myself,” in a matter of weeks. My neighbors now gaze in awe at the barn I built with my own two hands and some help from this masterpiece. My kids think I’m a wizard. My dog respects me more. Even my HOA backed off.If you’ve ever dreamed of building something that could survive the apocalypse and still look beautiful doing it, this is your book. It’s not just a manual. It’s a lifestyle. A philosophy. A wooden revolution.10/10. Would buy again if I hadn’t already memorized every glorious page.

Wonderful book for the professionals interested in the field of timber framing. I wish there were a better explanation on the beams in a roof frame but such is life. Also amongst all his explanations of photos there is no mention of the timber sizes in the photos which I find disheartening. If the intention is to educate the reader this seems like a massive oversight of the author. I’ve been a timber framer for over forty years and while I’ve found this book a valuable resource tool for teaching younger students about the field and history of timber framing I feel the author could have provided more information about timbers sizes in the photos. Seriously I’ve trained fifty or more apprentices and that question is always asked and upve had to explain what size timbers I would use when doing the same work as a specific photo in the book shows. Like seriously is 8x12 or 10 x14 so hard to write?

As an interesting and informative book on the history and applications of timber frame wood working. A good read.

captures the basics. Doesn’t have as much on the jointery as I would have liked…

Very detailed with lots of great ideas

a great book to look at the different types of timber frames.

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and learning from Jack and highly recommend his book(s)

Great info comes in handy for timber framing.