Timber Framing Introduction Weekend

the gate we'll be building

May 5-9 at "The Millbillies" White River Junction, Vermont

In this weekend workshop I'll introduce faeries and anyone else interested to the principles and practices of timber framing that we'll be using to build some of our structures at Faerie Camp Destiny. I'll be passing along what I learned at the Yestermorrow School of Design/Build last fall. We will make a simple two-posted information board/gate for the land that will be erected at the parking lot to help people arriving.

FRIDAY, MAY 5
5:00pm-8:00pm Arrival & Dinner
8:00pm Welcome Circle & Introduction to Timber Framing

SATURDAY, MAY 6
6:30am Yoga (optional!)
8:00am Breakfast
9:00pm Joinery: Mortise & Tenon
9:45am Tool Demonstration (Saws, Chisels, Planes, Drills, Squares & Pencils)
10:30am Break
10:45am Measure & Cut Posts
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Cut Tenons
3:30pm Break
3:45pm Finish Posts
6:00pm Dinner
8:00pm Drum Circle

SUNDAY, MAY 7
6:30am Yoga (optional!)
8:00am Breakfast
9:00am Measure & Cut Beam
10:00am Mortise Demonstration
10:30am Break
10:45am Cut Mortises
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Bore Peg Holes
2:00pm Frame Assembly (weather permitting)

THINGS YOU WILL NEED TO BRING

Work Clothes that you don't mind getting dirty
Sleeping Bag, Pad & Pillow
Eye protection recommended if you don't wear glasses
Work gloves recommended if your hands are sensitive
Instruments for jamming!