Timber framing is a traditional building practice that creates the skeleton framework of a structure by connecting and fastening the ends of both large and small wooden members with wooden joinery. Joinery consists of carving or fitting two pieces of timber together with the connection being secured and fastened with a wooden pin or peg. A primary method of joinery is mortise-and-tenon, which is the hole or recess cut of one wooden member receiving the corresponding projection of the other wo...
