Timber frame construction has been used for centuries and is increasingly popular today - here's why. Learn all about it here: https://www.timberhomeliving.com/articles/why-choose-timber-frame-design/ | Timber Home Living

Hewing - the process of turning a round log into a square beam. For centuries, this was how structural timbers were prepared before the advent of sawmills 🪚 There’s something beautiful about the irregular shapes and natural imperfections in the beams of an old building - a reminder of the human hands that made them 🌿 #hewing #timberframing #traditionalcraft #woodsmith | Woodsmith

The new 2024 season of Northmen Guild's Timber Framing and Full Scribe Log Building courses has started today. It's some fresh snow outside and lots of hewing inside the course barn to prepare logs for scribing, which we'll start doing tomorrow. We're very excited just as this year's first class. Amazing people from all corners of the world. US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Germany, Italy etc. Looking forward to share some insights with you during these days. Also shooting a longer footage t

3.3K views · 86 reactions | Curator Barry Stiles takes us through the process of hand-hewing a log. All log cabins in this region of the mountains were made of hewn logs. This was a process for squaring-off logs to make constructing cabins easier and more stable. Before saws, all of this was done by hand with two types of axes: a felling ax and a broad ax. To learn more about hewing, and woodwoorking in general, check out The Foxfire Book! | The Foxfire Museum | Facebook