Timber frame joints

Find over 150+ timber frame joints and joinery examples, including, mortise and tenon, post and beam, roof joinery, compound joinery, knee braces, and foundation details.

Some of the Traditional Joinery Methods we use for our Timber Frames. These joints have been used in woodworking for centuries and are strong and durable.

Timber Framing is a Very Old Building Tradition Timber Framing is an ancient building method that goes back hundreds if not thousands of years. The building method was developed as a way to build strong and secure buildings out of large pieces of wood, without metal nails, which were expensive and labor intensive to produce.

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A few photos of one of our recent installations. As part of an entire backyard installation, we created an outdoor room built into a small slope. The stone wall…

15 different types of scarf joints used in timber frame construction and woodworking projects. Scarf joints are used when a piece of timber needs to be longer and instead of sourcing a larger piece of lumber, two smaller pieces are joined together.

The differences in the different kind of timber building, traditional joinery versus butt joints with bolted steel plates.

A cross-lap joint creates clean, continuous lines in a timber frame. They almost make it look like the timbers are magically connected.