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 TFG Events

REGIONAL MEETINGS
Cascade Joinery 
Bellingham, Wash.
Jul 20

Northeast
Vaughan Homestead
Hallowell, Maine
Jul 26–28

TFG–TTRAG–TFEC–TFBC
Burlington, Vermont
Aug 8–11


 other Events

       2nd National Covered Bridge Conference
Dayton, Ohio
Jun 5–8

Timber framing workshop
 for high school students
includes grant (apply by Jun 16)
Andy
Hidden Valley Nature Center
Jefferson, Maine
Jul 18–21

Zorkaltsevo village,
 Tomsk Oblast, Russia
Aug 8–11

U.K Carpenters Fellowship
Frame 2013
Cressing Temple,
Essex, U.K
Aug 30–Sep 1

RELATED EVENTS

NOTICES

 News

September: TFG Project in Michigan

We'll build a 40 x 110-ft. pavilion, a roof over community events in the sw Michigan town of Vicksburg, pop. 2,900, Sept. 12–22. Our partner is Vicksburg Historical Society (VHS), the town of Vicksburg will feed us, and we can camp on site.  
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City of Amherst RFP
Deadline June 27. If you are a practicing timber framer, see Notices.


History of Timber Framing workshop

Jack Sobon’s History of Timber Framing workshop will run at Heartwood School, Mass., June 22 and 23. It’s subsidized by the Guild’s apprenticeship training funds to become a permanent part of the Guild curriculum. If you need the course for your Apprenticeship/Journeyworker completion, or if you’re simply interested in this topic, please sign up. This is a great way to support the Guild while learning.
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SketchUp at Burlington Conference
Late Friday morning (Aug 9) at the TFG conference, Clark Bremer is presenting a two-part workshop on compound roofs with SketchUp (part one before lunch and part two after). This highly useful workshop is free! but pre-registration is required, so that Clark can tell you the prerequisites.
Of course, bring your laptops. This is very hands-on. You’ll want to install SketchUp plus the timber framing extensions. For more information, ask Clark Bremer.

New! Notices are online
Notices—classified ads for everything from shop dogs for sale to help wanted—are now on the web. You can get to them via the sidebar at left bottom or via Events / Notices. (Notice listings are free to members and also appear in the Scantlings newsletter, another member benefit.)

Short film on the Polish Synagogue

A new film from the Museum of the History of Polish Jews gives a brief recounting of the synagogue reconstruction. Rick and Laura Brown, Joel McCarty, and Alicia Spence make film appearances.

 

2013 Conference Registration Opens

Not to miss!  You can now register for the 2013 TFG
TTRAGTFECTFBC Conferenc
e in Burlington, Vt.
Registrations we receive for the full conference before July 1 will save $50.
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Shear Testing in Burlington
Our new shear tester will take center stage at the August conference. (Tension and scarf-bending testers are on sabbatical.) 
Read more on the testing 





The Poland Story 
from the Midnight Math postThe longest-running project in Guild history has been the collaborative re-creation of much of the destroyed 18th-century Gwozdziec Synagogue, for the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

Read more at our extensive Gwozdziec blog.
New York Times article (19 Apr 2013)
Boston Globe article (20 Apr 2013)
New York Times article (16 Jun 2011)

 

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