Education

Timber framing with a class of third graders at the Waldorf school in Minden, Germany

Upcoming classes:

North House Folk School

The timber framing trade lives and thrives through constant exchange between generations, the elder passing on knowledge to the younger, and communities sharing knowledge with each other. This transfer can be found in every tradition, trade and society.  Part of GFD Woodworking’s goal is to have at least one full time apprentice on the team.

Courses Taught:

TFG Pre-conference workshop. The unequal pitched hip roof. A geometrical solution. May 2017

German Style Timber Framing @ North House Folk School, Grand Marais, MN. 2015, 2016, 2017,2018,2019.

Basic Timber Framing @ North House Folk School, Grand Marais, MN 2017,2019

Build Your Own Timber Frame, Smaller Frames.@ North House Folk School, Grand Marais, MN 2017,2018,2019

Build your own sawhorse. Duluth Folk School 2016. North House Folk school 2017,2018.

Instructor a Virginia Military Institute Field Training Exercise. Timber Framing 2012, 2013, 2016.

Africa House Restoration. Melrose, Louisiana. February-March 2015

German Dachstuhl Hip Roof. Newbury, Vermont. October- November 2013

TFG* Workshop. Lake Naconiche Pavilion. Nacogdoches, Texas 2013

TFG* Community Building Project. Old Stone Barn Re-Creation. Brownington, Vermont. May 2012

TFG* Community Building Project. Gwozdziec Synagogue Reconstruction. Sanok, Poland. June- July 2011. Warsaw, Poland. January 2013

First German Style Timber Framing course @ North House Folk School 2015

Virginia Military Institute Field Training Exercise 2013