Member Directory

Aspiring carpenter embarking on a career change.  I am about to complete (05.12.22 - 09.12.22) a foundation carpentry course with the Builder Training Centre; https://thebtc.co.uk/brochure/foundation-carpentry-courses/.  I know this is not an extensive carpentry course and is not timber frame focused but I am keen to learn and to know what additional training and experience timber frame employers would look for me to attend in order to further advanced my employment opportunities.

Bill Keir: Building and Repairing Traditionally TimberFramed Buildings since 1986 Director at TJ Crump Oakwrights Ltd  2003 to present time Worked at Carpenter Oak and Woodland Ltd from 1998, Director from 1996 to 2003 Member of the Carpenters Fellowship from Frame 2000 until present, Director / Board member from 2004 until present. Member of the TimberFramers Guild from 1990 until present, Director / Board member from 2015 until 2021.

Qualified Heavy Structural Carpenter since 2006, I have covered all the units. Oak Framer since 1999. Experience in woodland management and other woodwork crafts since 1986. These include sculpture, joinery, furniture making and percussion instrument making. Though semi retired I am available in the Bristol area for short term subcontract work, consultation, project management, tool hire etc, I'd probably make a good assistant foreman for short projects. I have a full kit. I have done much design and consultation over the years. I was once a managing director coordinating three teams of carpenters on three projects, so I know howm...

Tim Walton is the CF Membership Secretary and owner of Greenwood Direct Ltd - oak frame design & build, based in Wiltshire, UK

ARBORANTICS provides a traditional and contemporary carpentry and craft service Traditional timber framing, round wood framing and log build work arborantics.co.uk 07789 200587 Based in Angus , near Dundee, Scotland

Chris is a Chartered Structural Engineer with IStructE, experienced in designing oak framing from basic analysis through to detailed connection design & historic remedial works and timber repairs using most contemporary and historic methods from simple splicing to carbon & glass fibre internal reinforcement. DVE will cover most of the country and work directly with the framer in the office and on site.

Timber framing and glazing. Gloucestershire.

I am a traditional timber framer working on existing timber frame restoration and conservation, and producing new green oak frames using traditional methods.

Harry Hopgood, Carpenter and Timber Framer currently working for the Green Oak Carpentry Company in Liss.

Architect and timber framer.

Director and lead carpenter at Oakley Frame Buildings ltd based in Worcestershire. Timber framing being our local vernacular we do lot of conservation projects around worcestershire and the marches. We also love working with clients to design bespoke and characterful new oak frames, we are able offer CAD design services to start the process of turning an idea or concept into a functional oak frame structure.

Timber Frame Carpenter.

We are a small Timberframe & Bespoke Joinery Co. located in Lake Ann, MI USA.

Conservation carpenter and consultant based in Hertfordshire UK.

I have been involved in Traditional oak framing since 2007 when I joined Norton Timber Ltd as an apprentice, prior to this I was a general carpenter in Canada for 8 years. I have since worked my way up to Oak frame carpenter, frame designer and general manager of the company. We build Bespoke Oak frame houses and extensions in the south east of England. Check out our website www.Nortontimber.co.uk for more details. I have also been a board member of the Carpenters Fellowship since 2019 and have been heavily  involved in several CF projects.

Hi, I am Nigel, an East Sussex-based framer. I've completed timber framing courses with Joe Thompson at Weald & Downland, and more recently the MSc in Timber Building Conservation.  My experience lies in scribe rule, but I have an interest in moving to the square rule system. We have mixed woodland at home with a lot of ash, and decent amount of standing oak. My milling experience is mostly Granberg chainsaw mill, but I also have the Logosol M2 farmers mill twinned with a big Stihl MS660.  My wife Cathy and I attended Frame 2024 at Chiltern, and thought it...

Ex CF Chair, Project Manager and source for timber framing hand tools especially old laminated American socket chisels and slicks. Developed TheToolRegister app for recording details of vulnerable and valuable tools and equipment on your smart phone,  £12 for life, www.TheToolRegister.com and the police approved "Cube" for temporary on site security of equipment, tools and materials,  www.uWatch.co.uk  Why wait until you become a victim!

I am one of the founding directors of Hartwood Oak Buildings Ltd. Along with my business partner, Tim Green, we started the company in 1994 - the time has flown by. We specialise in the design and manufacture of green oak timber frames for extensions, party barns, out buildings - pretty much anything made from fresh sawn green oak. We work within a 1hr/40 mile radius of Newbury, Berkshire and like to work in Berkshire, Hampshire Wiltshire and Oxfordshire.

24 year member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America(UBC), Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council, Local Union #250, Lake and McHenry County, Illinois, USA. Employed as a full time instructor for the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council Apprentice and Training Program in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. I teach layout, residential and commercial framing, interior and exterior trim, stairs, and rafters. I am also the lead instructor for our Heavy Timber Program consisting of traditional timber framing courses and Mass Timber Construction utilizing glulam, CLT, NLT, and LVT. We have just begun our program of Stereotomy...

My research into the knowledge of the medieval carpenter in setting out roofs and buildings without  using geometry or numeric measurement came about while studying vernacular buildings in Kent and Sussex. I was interested in the different roof layouts from crown posts to clasp-purlin queen post roofs from the 13th to the 18th century. I realised that roof pitches had constant angles of 43, 48, 52, 55 and 58 degrees. I then checked vernacular roofs in the Midland England cruck and box-frame country and in East Anglia and found the same constant roof pitches. Then I took my research futher...