Cruck timber framers

[stickframer]

I have been piddling around with square rule framing, but would like to get into scribing. I have seen where heartwood offers a scribe class. I would like to cut a cruck frame like the one below. Is there any members that are not so-well-known that have experience with cruck frames?

http://tinyhousetalk.com/646-sq-ft-carpenter-oak-cottage/

[Jim_Rogers]

Dave Shepard on this forum has had experience in this field.

Jim Rogers

[Dave Shepard]

I've taken the Heartwood course twice, in '09 and in '11, and I sawed most of the timbers for last years cruck workshop. I asked Jack Sobon, one of the instructors when the next course was and he didn't know. I believe that Heartwood needs to line up a project before they offer the course. It was a great experience, (obviously, I took it twice  ). I have pics in my timber framing album. I'll add more later, when I have more time.

[Chilterns]

Hi Stickframer,

At the risk of having the following links deleted by the forum administrator you can visit and follow through the complete process of cutting and raising a cruck framed building on The Oxfordshire Woodland Group web forum in their Timber Framing section at :-

http://oxfordshirewoodlandgroup.co.uk/forum/?mingleforumaction=viewforum&f=22.1

Start with the older posts and then work your way forward.

You can also follow the hand hewing conversion of cruck blades and other timbers on the same forum in the Timber Felling & Conversion section at :-

http://oxfordshirewoodlandgroup.co.uk/forum/?mingleforumaction=viewforum&f=14.0

There are pics of another neat little 2 bay cruck frame cut by Henery Russell and others at :-

http://oxfordshirewoodlandgroup.co.uk/forum/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=208

The Carpenter Oak cruck frame shown in your link to the TinyHousesTalk web site is neat but the timbers are clearly all converted using modern sawing methods which makes the whole frame lose something of it's organic origins and so I would encourage you to practice selection of suitable trees direct from the woodland and then employ hand conversion. This will force you to start thinking about line, level, layout, joint selection in a way that just does not happen when following the square rule framing mantra.

Chilterns