Custom Timber-Frames:
The Timber-Frame Shop offers Custom Timber-Frame services throughout the year. We have a very small crew, and use a combination of top of the line hand-held power tools and centuries old hand tools, to cut every kind of frame immaginable (from small garden structures to large barns). I work with a number of small local sawyers to provide customers with high quality, sustainably harvested timbers. I am currently cutting a lot of Hemlock, which is a strong, beautiful, and economical material. It is quite common in our area, and easiest worked green.
Frames are priced according to a formula that considers the number of joints, the size of the timbers, the number of curved elements, and the level of finish. The more joinery, the more expensive the frame; therefore a small frame may not always be the least expensive. As the business grows, we will be offering an increasing number of stock frames, designed and priced in advance. Please click on the "Our Catalog" link to your left, for more information on stock designs.
Our Most Recent Project:
This summer, Jeoff and Mark, owners of the Williams River House in Chester, Vermont, commissioned us this simple gothic archway in White Oak to be installed as part of a sculpture by artist John Tidd. John will be sculpting a realistic grape vine out of various metals which will wrap around the archway, terminating in a decorative lamp at the top of the arch.
Custom Framing Gallery:
A small carport frame, cut and ready to go in the truck.
This frame is cut from planed Hemlock, and has curved braces and decorative chamfers.
Mimi Marchev reads the paper outside her new frame!
A detail of Mimi's frame, as we begin to sheathe it.
Raising Jecca and Rochelle's Carport.
Picking up the front Plate!
Jecca and Rochelle's Prius wakes up in the new Car Port frame, which is almost finished.
A 20' by 26' House frame, cut and ready to go to the site.
The Frame, Raised on its foundation at Adam and Jessica's Nursery.
A closeup of the frame, and sub-floor.
This house was framed and sheathed entirely in Rough Sawn Hemlock from a local mill.
The 20' by 26' House Frame as seen from the end, in the late afternoon shadows.
