Woodbury TN, 2016

This 24’x24’ frame with two loft levels is the home of my two friends, who logged and milled all the wood from their own land and helped me cut the frame. It features many curved braces in both cherry and poplar, as well as hi/lo tenons and splines. This one was cut completely with the use of hand tools.

Tennessee House with Lofts

Spacious and bright timber frame on raising day, with a forest in the background.
Close up of spline and mortise and tenon details in timber frame.
Looking up at split loft level of raised timber frame.
Dramatic curved curly cherry braces in a standing timber frame, in the sunlight.
Huge curved cherry braces in cathedral ceiling of timber frame, freshly raised in the forest.
Exterior photograph of a new timber frame on raising day.
Assembling a timber framed bent with mortise and tenon joinery, and splines, using a humongous wooden hammer.
Curved curly cherry timber framed braces on sawhorses.
Timber framed joist housing with lapped dovetail.
Two carpenters use antique auger to bore large holes in oak timber to cut a mortise and tenon joint.
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