This 4 week Timber Framing Certificate provides hands-on experience in all aspects of building a timber framed structure. 

Throughout this program students

• will engage in a design intensive focused on a project of their own choosing,
• learn square rule layout
• various joinery techniques
• participate in a timber frame raising
• learn how to enclose a timber frame
• gain comfort with traditional timber framing hand tools and modern power tools
• learn basic carpentry skills to be applied to the structure enclosure

REVIEWS

The strongest part was seeing how a hobby I love dearly translates to a professional career. I shied away from power tools in my first course, romantically focused on hand-tooling everything. After several projects, I returned to Yestermorrow to learn how professionals approach it, and Wynne, Trish, Ariel, and Jacob were amazing in making it make sense, as well as teaching how to move quickly without sacrificing quality. I left this course confident I could accept a timber framing job and deliver a quality result on time. Since leaving, I have done just that, selling my first framed kit I was able to cut in a week, which would have taken me a month before.

-Tanner St. Pierre, 2024

Yestermorrow's sliding scale tuition model is not available for certificate programs. Information on financial aid can be found here.