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# Roundwood Timber Framing: Building Naturally Using Local Resources Hardcover – November 11, 2010

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## Customer Reviews

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    If you really, really love wood . . . .
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 11, 2012*

Roundwood Timber Framing by Ben Law is filled with great photos and layout, passionate writing, and some challenges for we Americans. Law lives in England. He uses mostly metric measurements and presents word challenges to this wordsmith and amateur builder: cruck, bender, jowl, disco jowl, ping, wang, feltch. I recommend that you read the two glossary pages before beginning the book.A cruck is at the heart of this building style; it is essentially an A-frame that is braced and then surrounded by a box frame. The multiple crucks are made on the floor, then lifted erect one by one, pulling a log ridge pole up and onto their tops as they are lifted. This produces a strong structure but fills the living or working space of the building with angled poles. The building process requires a crew and/or special lifting equipment.The book chapters include tree species used for specific parts of the construction--some species are not found here but for which we have substitutions that are not given in the book, tools--some not commonly found here, and how to hand chisel the various pegged joints that keep everything tight together. Many of the tools are specialized and would add to the cost of constructing a single home or shop building.I applaud Ben Law's eco-sensitive outlook. He eschews concrete foundations, opting for one-square-meter gravel foundation pits topped with square "york stone," for which we Americans would almost certainly substitute concrete. Alas, he does not address the issue of frost heaving. He uses coppiced trees typically harvested from the building property, greatly reducing the need for oil-consuming and polluting transportation. Insulation is often sheep's wool, with which we on this side of the pond have zero experience. I recommend dense-packed cellulose which has high R-value and is made from recycled paper materials.If you love wood as I do, have lots of trees on your property as I do, and have lots of nearby stout, willing friends to help--I don't--this building style is unique, beautiful, strong and uses a renewable resource, although I suspect that a stickbuilt house actually uses fewer trees for its construction.My final complaint is that there is no index.

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    impressive but not practical
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 16, 2014*

This book is beautiful but it's more laid out like a coffee table book with lots of  glossies and only shows some basic elements of building with round wood. Law is very skilled and I believe is  committed to ecologically sound building but his massive scale-- very large buildings  (his own large home is a "showcase") negates the push for lightening our carbon footprint.  The reader is left with a few big issues:the author is in England and uses Chestnut which is not available in North America;round wood building requires a huge investment in tools and equipment: think "timber frame tools" and double or triple the cost;putting up these structures will require a large, skilled crew;all structures featured are hybrids which include lots of milled lumber (the author probably has his own bandsaw mill which is shown in some pictures);The cruck frame appears redundant and, although it does eliminate the need for angle bracing on the gable ends it causes lots of extra labor and money to work with and around;these structures will require lots of exterior maintenance, especially gable end walls that have small overhangs.If you are wealthy and can afford to spend lots of time and money to apprentice yourself for a year or so, then invest in tools (include at least 5K for a starter bandsaw mill) and hire two or three skilled timber framers and put them through the apprenticeship, you will eventually have a showpiece. If you are not wealthy you will learn a few tips and might consider including a few round logs in your timber frame structure which would be more feasible.

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    Excellent book—seems that Ben rarely messes around
  

*by Q***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 5, 2015*

Excellent book—seems that Ben rarely messes around. This book has a lot of depth, especially for those of you who have spent many hours scratching your head over roundwood timber framing joinery and design. I know I have! Couple this book with the equally well made DVD and you're on track to get jumpstarted on roundwood timber framing. Only bit missing is the experience. So get on it...

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