The impetus for this revision was in large part to update and to include these new testing results so that the readers would be privy to the latest engineering results available for timber frame joinery. In the past five or six years testing has at last been carried out for a number of the most common pegged joinery conditions and the results have been published. However, nothing ever beats a direct test for a specific condition as the results end with an emphatic exclamation point. This is common in engineering as the essential physical laws concerning force and motion, primarily Newtonian physics, are symmetrical. The corollaries that could be made at that time were drawn from testing results for bolted connections. When this book was first published in 1998, scientific testing results for pegged mortise and tenon joinery simply did not exist. Over a period of a number of years several revisions and additions took place, as it was used as the handout workshop manual for Fox Maple Timber Framing Workshops.
The major portion of A Timber Framer’s Workshop was first written back in 1983. Illustrated with over 500 photos and CAD drawings. This revised edition of A Timber Framer s Workshop has over 150 new photos and includes updated engineering specifications for pegged joinery, along with expanded in-depth technical information on the joinery, design and construction of Traditional Timber Frames.
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