Best timber framing book?

[herne]

I'm on the hunt for a good timber framing book. How to's on all the joints, methods etc.

 

Anyone got any favourites please?

 

Thanks

 

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[Stompy]

Prob not what your after but 'The Complete Japanese Joinery' is great, kind of what your after but for Japanese buildings.... as the title suggests

 

Other than that 'Building the Timber Frame House: The Revival of a Forgotten Craft' by Tedd Benson is pretty good. There is another, considered the timber framers bible in America but I cannot remember the name at the mo.........

Edited May 22, 2014 by Stompy

[sandspider]

Ben Law did a couple - though I think they were more the story of the build than a how to...

[carpenter1]

Get carpenters books, for teaching, I got some somewhere

Got all the joints in

[morten]

Out of the six Timer Frame books that I own, I would recommend two:

 

[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Timber-Framers-Workshop-Construction-Traditional/dp/188926900X]A Timber Framer's Workshop: Joinery, Design & Construction of Traditional Timber Frames[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Timber-Frame-Construction-Building-publishing/dp/0882663658]Timber Frame Construction: All About Post and Beam Building[/ame]

[Walksatnight]

Are you looking to build something herne

[aswales]

A Timber framers workshop by Chappell is a good how to type book. Also you can download a pdf which is a scan of a old book called Light and Heavy timber framing made easy by Fred T Hodgson