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Handcrafted Timber Framing

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Recent Work

208.280.4570

Handcrafted Timber Framing

Handcrafted Timber FramingHandcrafted Timber FramingHandcrafted Timber Framing
Recent Work

208.280.4570

Intro to Timber Framing Workshop: May 16-20, 2025 Sandpoint

Three Bent, 16 x 24 Outdoor Kitchen

Cost: $600  (tuition does not include lodging or food)  ( We can recommend nearby camping spots).

Location: Just outside Sandpoint, ID 83864

Schedule:  9am -5pm each day, 1 hour break for lunch each day

Friday-Monday, cutting the frame

Tuesday - Raising day


Come learn timber framing with the Timber Dwarves ( Dave and Jed).  We like to have a good time and help people take their first steps in to the world of timber framing.  We will give you the confidence and skills to tackle your own timber frame project.  We use mostly hand tools but will also train you to use a chain mortiser and beam saw.   Bring your own tools if you have them but we also have loaner tools for students to use.  

RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY: $300, email: naturalbuilder.jp@gmail.com, we will send you a Venmo link, email subject: May 16-20, 2025 workshop reservation

18 x 24 Frame for Sale, 3 Bents, Can Deliver

Timber Dwarves Frame for sale:

Premium Douglas fir throughout.  90 Beams

Full sill system

Full 2nd story or half loft, you choose

All main beams 8 x 10's, rafters and knee braces 4 x 6's 

Free Delivery within 100 miles of Sandpoint

  • Price: $35, 000 original, reduced to  $32,000( April 2025) 

Email: naturalbuilder.jp@gmail.com for more info.  

October 2023 Workshop Time Lapse

16 x 20 Frame with a sill and loft

October 2-7, 2023 Timber Dwarves Workshop- Project Example pictures

Sill on 9 concrete piers

    Timber Dwarves May 2023 Workshop: Olympia, WA

      TIMBER DWARVES SUMMER 2022 WORKSHOp: Sagle, ID

      The Timber Dwarves: Dave Kretzschmar and Jed Petterson


        The Timber Dwarves: Dave Kretzschmar and Jed Petterson

        Ready to learn timber framing?

        Come join us for a week long timber frame workshop and go home with the skills necessary to build your first timber frame.

        About Us

        What We Do

        At Timber Dwarves, our mission is to create a win, win, win experience.  We teach students the time honored tradition of timber framing, create a structure for a client that is beautiful and lasting and honor our skills as craftsman through sharing this art form with others.

        Working Together

        We offer a hands on workshop experience, where we will guide novices in the creation of an amazing timber frame structure.   We use mostly hand tools but will also train you in using a chain mortiser and beam saw. 

        Spring 2021 Workshop: 3 Bent, 16 x 20 frame, BTR Campus

        Time lapse of a 14 x 20 pavilion going up on the Between the Rivers campus.  We built this in 5 days using only hand tools and raised on the 6th day.  Of the 11 students, 9 had no previous wood-working experience.  

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