2025 Timber Framers Guild Conference

Adam Miller

Adam Miller is an independent carpenter and consultant specializing in timber and log framing. His practice ranges from practical, vernacular projects in the New England square-rule tradition to complicated, innovative works that push the boundaries of organic-form scribing. A frequent presenter at... read more

Presentation

• Disassembly and Reuse: Current Developments in Saving Threatened Japanese Timber Frames

Ariel Schecter

Ariel Schecter is a passionate, Vermont-based carpenter specializing in round wood scribing, compound joinery, and stereotomy. After working for 7 years as a lead timber framer and designer for Timberhomes Vermont, he is starting his own business, Woodpecker LLC, focusing on design,... read more

Arron Sturgis

Arron Sturgis lives in Maine with his wife Michele and a gaggle of wild cats. He is a Guild board member. He has run Preservation Timber Framing Inc. for over 35 years.Now with a crew of more than 20 diverse individuals, we... read more

Presentation

• Framing Your Future

Autumn Peterson

It is such an honor for me to serve as president of the board and to help the Guild thrive and expand in a positive and productive way. Our Guild community has meant so much to me for more than two decades. The incredible... read more

Ben Brungraber

Ben Brungraber, Ph.D., P.E., holds a Master of Science from Colorado State in Timber Structures and a Ph.D. in Mortise and Tenon Joinery from Stanford University. In his early years, Ben worked in the construction industry after acquiring his civil engineering degree... read more

Brad Morse

Brad Morse got his start in timber framing as a Heartwood apprentice in 2004. His business, Uncarved Block, primarily builds custom new homes in Western Massachusetts. He, like so many tradespeople, has juggled the split or transition between being a craftsperson and... read more

Presentation

• How to Properly Price Your Timber Frame

Caleb Miller

Caleb has been a Timber Framer for the last 11 years and is Co-Owner with his brother John of JCM Timberworks in Killbuck, Ohio. Coming from a mechanical and metalworking background allowed him to learn traditional timber framing and start JCM, who... read more

Presentation

• The Full Spectrum of In Situ Repairs on Ohio Timber Framed Barns

Clark Bremer

Clark Bremer is a former professional timber framer from Minneapolis. He is now semi-retired, but still leads timber framing workshops, and teaches timber framing at North House Folk School (Grand Marais, MN) and Avon Hills Folk School (Avon, MN). He enjoys inventing... read more

Presentation

• Timber Frame Joinery Design Using SketchUp

Cody Wayland

Cody Wayland is a JTC Co-founder, wood artist, and design/build general contractor who also teaches sawmilling at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking

Presentation

• Using small sawmills to produce timbers and build a business cooperative

Dolly Chapman

Dolly Chapman, owner of Chapman's Sharp Crosscut Saws, worked as a trail crew leader for the US Forest Service for 30 seasons and learned that the crosscut saw is an excellent tool when maintained and used correctly. Since leaving the Forest Service... read more

Presentation

• The Finer Points of Crosscut Saw Use and Maintenance

F. Jay Smith

Over the last 45 years Jay Smith has researched and built Nordic lapstrake boats, beginning in a small boat shop on a fjord in western Norway. An additional seven month apprenticeship in the Faroe Islands, sponsored by the Danmark-America Foundation, established a... read more

Presentation

• Historical Viking Ship Construction

Ian Nimmo

Ian has been with 475 since 2018 and loves supporting his clients with all things high performance! Most recently, Ian became a PHI certified Passive House Tradesperson in addition to his HERS Rater and BPI Building Analyst certifications. Ian’s father was a... read more

Presentation

• Foam Free High Performance Building Enclosures

Jackson DuBois

Presentation

• Community Building Projects Roundtable

James Mitchell

Island School of the Building Arts

James Mitchell is the owner/principal instructor at the Island School of Building Arts, a registered trade school in British Columbia, Canada. For 27 years, James taught log and timber construction, Big Wood Center Rule Program, to students from around the world. Recently... read more

www.logandtimberschool.com

Presentation

• Big Wood Center Rule

Joe McCarthy

Joe McCarthy is a founding member and senior partner of Lancaster County Timber Frames Inc., TF Guild member since 1988, and has been
timber framing since 1987. As site supervisor Joe has led or participated in over 700 hundred
raisings all over the United... read more

Presentation

• Anatomy of a Covered Bridge

John Buday

John Buday's perfectly reasonable career as a residential carpenter starting in the late 1970s became significantly sidetracked after a chance encounter with timber framing, in the person of one Mark Witter, which led to participation in a2002 Guild project in Sechelt, British... read more

Presentation

• Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial

Joshua Coleman

Josh Coleman is a senior partner with Lancaster County Timber Frames Inc., TF Guild member since 2002 and has been timber framing since1999. Josh currently leads the design team at LCTF and recently got his P.E. license after procrastinating for 19 yrs.... read more

Presentation

• Anatomy of a Covered Bridge

Kieran Mclaury Taylor

Storybook Timber

Presentation

• Timber Framing with Intention: Roundtable Discussion

Max Baker

Max Baker is the Development Supervisor for the City of Tukwila, Washington, where he leads efforts to make local planning and permitting processes clearer, more consistent, and community-focused. Over nearly a decade with the City, he has guided updates to Tukwila’s Accessory Dwelling... read more

Presentation

• Permitting, Policy, and the Path Forward: Balancing Housing, Environment, and Reform in Washington State and Across the Country

Paul Jensen

My experience working on Historic Structures began with the NPS at North Cascades in the 90's working on Lookouts and Backcountry Cabins. I worked the the Historic Preservation Center in Frederick, Md. for 12 years and the Western Center for Historic Preservation... read more

Presentation

• Historic Preservation: The Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of Timber Frame and Log Structures

Rick Collins

Rick Collins BioRick Collins is recognized for his expertise in both the history and the future of timber frame building. His portfolio encompasses visionary buildings that redefine the role of wood in thebuilt environment, as well as authentic restoration and preservation work.Rick... read more

Presentation

• Strategies for the Unexpected in the Midwest

Ross Grier

Presentation

• Yup, Workers Cooperatives Work in Bellingham, Washington

Sawhorse Revolution

.Sawhorse Revolution is a Seattle-based non-profit serving high-school students primarily from Central and South Seattle. Our mission is to foster confident, community-oriented youth through the power of carpentry and craft.

Steve Lawrence

I have had a varied career. Starting with an apprenticeship in metal working as a fabricator and machinist, I moved into logging and arborist work before starting my timber framing career with Carpenter Oak & Woodland in 1990.  In 2005, I moved to... read more

Presentation

• Community Building Projects Roundtable