Timber Framers Guild Forums General General Forum Questions New Books 2009-10

Ken, why have you been tempted 3 times and still chosen not to keep it?

Tim

I think Will T provided a link to this one time. I'll happily add this one to the shelves.

Army Field Manual: Rigging, etc.

Cant beat $14.00

This is public information so if you don't want to buy the book you can download the pdf here:

http://www.petrospec-technologies.com/Herkommer/knots/FM5-125.pdf

For those into medieval timber frames a book with the descriptive title "Regional Variation in Timber-Framed Building in England and Wales Down to 1550" is well worth buying. It has some great illustrations similar to those in "Discovering Timber Framed Buildings". The first edition came out in 1998 so it's not new. However I've never seen it mentioned in must-have timber frame book lists, so I thought I'd mention it.

Miles

Hi Meddins,

Can you please provide the full description and details for this book including author, publisher, ISBN number, price, etc.

Regards

Ken Hume

Regional variation in timber-framed building in England and Wales down to 1550
The proceedings of the 1994 Cressing Conference
By Cressing Conference (1994 Cressing Temple)
Published in 2002 Second edition, 1998 first edition
Essex County Council (Chelmsford)

# Paperback: 147 pages
# Publisher: Essex County Council Planning Dept. (April 1998)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 1852811722
# ISBN-13: 978-1852811723
# Product Dimensions: 29.4 x 21 x 1.2 cm

Hi Ken;

You must be familiar with The Village Carpenter by Walter Rose. This is essential reading.

In looking around on the web for the above mentioned book, I came across this list of classic books:

http://www.heavytimberwork.com/links.html

Jim

That looks like a list I need to keep track of. I got The Village Carpenter for Christmas. A very good read.

Hi Jim and Dave,

I reviewed the heavytimberwork list and already own 14 out of 18 of the European content books, 7 out of 10 of the North American and 3 out of 6 of the other.

I am impressed by the capability and achievements of the heavytimberwork.com carpenters in Canada however this does not appear to extend to spelling where Hermann Phleps is entered in the book reference list as Phelps (common mistake).

Regards

Ken Hume

Speaking of book lists, the Guild has two bibliographies of books of interest. I could not get to the TTRAG Selected Bibliography of Historical Books from the home page, but here is the link:

http://www.tfguild.org/ttrag/bibliodate.html

The other one is here:

http://www.tfguild.org/tfgbiblio.html

Jim