About Us
We are passionate about teaching
the next generations of timber framing apprentices...
Your Instructors
Craig Boynton
Craig is a timber framer and builder who has decades of experience building homes, cabins, barns, garages, porticos, pavilions (and much more). He is an excellent teacher and mentor in the craft, and loves teaching skills workshops and intensives. He has cut scribed frames using hand hewn beams, and follows in the lineage of Jack Sobon in early American traditional joinery and square rule method.
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Craig was born and raised in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts and traces his ancestors back to some of the first settlers of New England and the Old Country.
Ricardo Sierra
Ricardo has been building 'shelters' for decades, both as a young carpenter builder and later as a wilderness skills educator and program director. He began crafting timber frames for his Hawk Circle Wilderness Retreat Center so his campers and participants could experience the magic of timber framed structures during their stay in the mountains. He has worked with Craig to teach students in short weekend workshops and longer 'apprenticeship' type formats too.
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Ricardo lives with his family in Cherry Valley, NY, in the western Catskills near Cooperstown. He has lived in many places in California as part of the California Conservation Corps in the early 80's, then in the Hudson Valley of New York, Massachusetts and Arizona.
