Timber Framing Apprenticeship North Carolina

Heartwood school for the homebuilding crafts a school that offers timber framing homebuilding carpentry and woodworking classes.

Timber framing apprenticeship north carolina. College of the rockies cranbrook bc driftless folk school viroqua wi econest school of natural building ashland or heartwood school washington ma. After a two year apprenticeship with master builder don minnerly in oregon he moved the the mountains of north carolina to work as a luthier and continue building and studying norther european timber frame design and construction. Plant vogtle training center waynesboro georgia. Several also have regular internships and apprenticeships.

Will and wife helen stand in their new timber frame home cut partially during a grand oaks apprenticeship and then finished by will in his own shop. Apprentices stay for 12 weeks at a time three months and learn timber framing natural building carpentry and even some wilderness survival skills in their stay at hawk circle. Each week is filled with lessons and opportunities for making pegs cutting mortises and tenons moving beams drilling holes sharpening chisels sawing designing layout and much more. Apprentice places last rafter of the the timber frame that he cut and hand raised after doing an apprenticeship at grand oaks timber framing.

Students will learn layout techniques tool use and sharpening and joinery cutting methods as we work on a small timber frame project culminating in a raising on the final day. This program is all about learning while doing. Emmanuel episcopal athens georgia. Experience the fundamentals of designing and constructing a timber frame using mortise and tenon joinery.

Personal 1 week program. Pavilion lake keowee south carolina. Evening lectures will address the history of the craft finishing techniques and mechanical systems for timber frame houses.