We had the pleasure of working together with Charpentiers Sans Frontieres (Carpenters Without Borders) and Mortise and Tenon Magazine to help organize and execute a nine-day, hand-tool only project to create a timber frame for a blacksmith shop and teaching space. Thirty five carpenters from six countries converged at the… More
As part of our timber work for a library addition in Poultney VT, we designed and created an octagonal roof timber frame to cap an octagonal tower. The frame features eight hip rafters and eight curved braces that join into a ‘roof boss’ or ‘kingpin’, a large octagonal timber at… More
We are nearly complete with our timber work for a large addition to a 19-th century farmhouse in Poultney, VT. The interior structure of the building is rendered in timber, and the exterior high-performance envelope is built conventionally. The new space will house a large book collection and guest quarters,… More
In September of 2018 I was part of a crew re-building a timber bridge over a moat surrounding the 12th-century Chateau d’Harcourt in Normandy, France. The job was organized by Charpentiers Sans Frontieres (Carpenters Without Borders), a group of historic timber framing-enthusiasts and professionals who undertake ambitious carpentry projects around… More
I designed and built a home for my wife and myself near my shop in Lincoln. It’s a hybrid design, featuring a double-stud exterior wall of local, rough-sawn pine with interior structure framed with timber. This hybrid style can make a lot of sense for new house construction, combining the… More
The winter of 2018 found us fabricating and raising a large and complex frame for a house in lovely Little Compton, RI. The frame had over 20,000 board feet of timber (VT white pine, with braces sawn from black oak from the house site in RI), the largest we’ve done…. More
We’ve created a few timber framed solar-panel stands in collaboration with Smith and McClain, Inc., a solar contractor in Bristol, VT. One of these serves as an electric vehicle charging station in the Marbleworks center in downtown Middlebury, VT. Pairing small-scale solar power generation with locally-grown and crafted timber frames… More
We designed, cut and raised a timber frame home for clients on a gorgeous 300-acre farm in Bethel, VT. All of the timber for the frame was logged from their land with draft horses and sawn on site. The frame is a mix of hemlock, spruce and pine, with naturally-curved… More
Our clients in Bethel wanted a timber-framed spiral staircase as a centerpiece in their new timber-framed home. We were only too happy to take on the challenge! Many thanks to Josh Jackson of Timberhomes LLC for encouragement and design/concept mentorship.
In the spring of 2015, we had the pleasure of working with Studio Roji to design a garden shelter inspired by the Japanese machiai style. The resulting frame, made of local eastern white cedar and black cherry, blends elements of traditional Japanese design with a traditional Vermont timber frame sensibility. Goosewing Timberworks did… More
In the summer of 2014 we cut and raised the timber frame for a barn for some friends of ours in Lincoln, VT. The clients, inspired by the Goosewing Timberworks shop, chose some similar details including a bank-barn layout, 26×42 footprint, and live-edge cherry accents. We logged and milled the… More
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