Author: Joe Potts

Designed by Laurie Smith using daisy wheel geometry for all the angles and proportions of the frame down to the smallest detail, this hand-hewn oak frame was created without the use of tape measures, built and installed by CF members and community volunteers as a shelter for the gardeners working at the historic Cressing Temple […]

Inspired by a traditional style Japanese tea house, this frame was built by apprentices as a training program and installed as a garden building at Penny Brohn Hospice.

This modern frame, created in Douglas fir, was built by an international team of volunteers and instructors from the CF and the TFG (The Timber Framers’ Guild – our colleagues from the USA) and is the headquarters building for the Northmoor Trust in Oxfordshire

Another massive international collaboration, this huge building was erected using manpower and rope rigging techniques.

A beautiful traditional oak barn provided the perfect opportunity for oak frame training. With all the carpentry carried out on site by hand without mains electricity, all ages and experience levels were included in this lovely project to create a resource for the Westonbirt Arboretum.

A new woodland headquarters was needed by a charity that is re-foresting a large area just outside Andover, giving each child in the district the opportunity to plant their tree. CF members and volunteers from the community and the client organisation were all involved in building and raising this striking frame which is now constantly […]

This amazing building is a collaboration between CF Projects and the National History Museum of Wales – St Fagan’s, where it can be seen in all its glory at this free to entry National Museum near Cardiff.  It is designed from the archeological evidence found in Anglesey of a Royal Palace of the early medieval […]

Hewn, framed and erected in 2019 for a woodland and woodworking charitable trust in Oxfrordshire, this Anglo Saxon Hall was built by a huge team of volunteers from the CF and the client organisation. No power tools and no saws were used for this build with all of the carpentry undertaken by axe in the […]