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On April 16-19, 1999, some 15 to 20 undergraduates from Boston's Massachusetts College of Art cut, assembled and raised a 12' x 16' timber frame at the Hands House Studio, Norwell, Mass. Novices all, they were instructed by MassArt faculty and Guild members Laura and Rick Brown and Ellen Gibson and Executive Director Joel McCarty, Skip Williams of Virginia, and Brian Wormington of Mass. Laurie Macrae of Lexington, Virginia, also joined the group after getting hooked on timber framing at the Project Horizon raising.
The frame has 3 bents and the students used a combination of hand and power tools to cut the wedged half dovetail joinery.
The joinery was designed to facilitate disassembly of the frame, and consequently the entire frame has only 12 pegs.
The frame will serve as a touring demonstration of timber frame construction. It was featured at the Log Home Living & Timber Frame Show in Worcester, Mass., April 30-May 2, and will ultimately serve as the TFGNA office in Alstead, New Hampshire.
Here we present some photos of the work during the weekend.
The traditional group shot. (Click on the small photo to see a larger group shot.)
Ellen Gibson's model of the frame.
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Work begins.
Inside the shop, Joel McCarty delivers the safety lecture.
 
MassArt students Marc Holland and Katie Winston work on some timbers, while Laurie Macrae works with a mortiser; she is owner of a Lexington, Virginia, restaurant who supported Project Horizon and the Guild volunteers.
Laura Brown and Ellen Gibson get things set up.
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