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Spring 2014 Reciprocal Roof Advanced Timber Frame course project

Spring 2015 Student paring 1/2 Dovetail
Tie Beam tenon

Four Valley system cut as the Spring 2015 Advanced Timber Framing Course Project.

Asturias, Spain Summer 2008

Patagonia, Winter 2006

Nosara CR Winter 2015 Timber Framing Workshop Project

Costa Rica TF 2024 Now Set • November 23-Dec. 1, 2024
The final dates for the 2024 Costa Rica Community Building Initiative Workshop has now been set. Scroll down for more info.

Costa Rica Timber Framing Workshop 2024
Nosara Costa Rica, November 23-Dec. 1, 2024

The final dates for the 2024 Costa Rica Workshop have now been set.

This will be a Community Building Initiative workshop where we will be teaming up with the Bomberos de Nosara (a locally organized group of dedicated volunteer firefighters and lifeguards).

Working alongside the local lifeguards who will man the stations, students will cut and erect a pentagonal tower with an eclectic, flying hyperbolic curve roof system. From the ground, the roof design bears a striking resemblance to a bird flying. From a birds'-eye-view, the roof plan looks remarkably like a Green Sea Turtle, who have nested on this beach for millennia.

The workshop has all the makings of a life-changing—and potentially, life-saving—community building experience.

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Introducing the NEW 1624 Journeyman Square
To the Family of Chappell Square Products

The New 1624 Journeyman expands the possibilities for laying out and cutting compound roof systems by including unequal pitch roof tables for 8/12 and 10/12 Main Roof Pitches. This is the first time ever these tables have been available to use at your will, and without batteries or a math degree from Dartmouth.

The addition of the 1624 Journeyman will provide greater creativity and flexibility to any novice or professional roof framer looking to expand their horizon into crafting complex roof systems.

With a 2 inch by 24 inch body and 1-1/2 inch by 16 inch tongue, the 1624 Journeyman will fit as well in your hand as in your tool box—and give you one more trick to pull out of your bag when facing challenging roof systems.

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The Chappell Universal Framing Square!!!
The First Innovation in the Framing Square in 110 Years

The Master Framer model #1824 and the Traveler model #1218 each have the unique, patented Chappell Universal Square rafter tables. The front side body has a comprehensive Equal Pitched Rafter Table for determining layout of hip and valley roof systems with common pitches ranging from 2/12 to 18/12. The front side tongues have Unequal Pitch Rafter Tables for unequal roof systems ranging from 4/12 to 15/12 with a main common pitch of 12/12. The back side bodies have comprehensive Rafter Tables for 6 and 8 sided polygons. The backside tongues have Unequal Pitch Rafter Tables for roof systems with a main roof of 9/12.

Made of 13 gauge stainless steel with deep etched rulings and tables, this square will last a lifetime. The Master Framer, model #1824 has a body 2" x24" and a tongue of 1-1/2" x 18". The Traveler, model #1218 has a body 2" x 18" and a tongue of 1-1/2" x 12".
We suggest you read the article below to hear what carpenters are saying about the Chappell Square.

This is Carpentry article about the Chappell Square

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2025 Timber Framing Workshop at Fox Maple
Introductory Timber Framing, Date to be posted soon.
Advanced Timber Framing, Date to be posted soon.

Introductory Timber Framing Despite the heading, the Intro session is quite advanced in its concept and depth of material covered.

This is an extremely comprehensive course that lays the groundwork for all of the most essential aspects of timber framing from design considerations and parameters, engineering, layout and execution of joinery, culminating with the raising of a full scale timber frame that the students literally design, layout and cut themselves.

Advanced Timber Framing Workshop
This workshops takes the knowledge gained in the first session to a completely new level where we explore the wild and wonderful world of complex, multiplaned and multi-dimensional joinery.

This workshop is not for the faint-of-heart. In this course, students will learn a systematic process to determine angular relationships for virtually any three dimensional form or structure, and how to then apply this information to the layout and execution of complex, compound joinery. The results are often truly amazing. Students must have completed the Fox Maple Intro TF workshop or have 2 years professional timber framing experience to qualify for this course. MORE INFO

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Setting up the center lines
on a curved teak tie beam in
Costa Rica workshop.

Assembling English Joint in
Spring 2014 Introductory Workshop.

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Nosara, Costa Rica 2014