Sharpen your chisel and get out your auger bits - this Service Learning Project is for timber framing enthusiasts aspiring to polish up their hand skills working timbers. On the agenda: cutting timbers for a new covered front entryway on the Blue Building and over our new wood-fired brick bread oven. Given the frame’s unique and highly visible location on campus, we want the project to both tell the story of timber framing and underscore North House's commitment to handcraft. Anticipate spending abundant time using traditional timber framing tools including mortising with beam drills, utilizing slicks and chisels, surfacing with scrub planes, shaping with draw knives & spoke shaves, etc. Sharpen your tools, pack your tool bag and be part of North House's ‘Raise the Roof’ efforts, helping make campus an ever-more inspiring place to learn! Past North House timber framing students and other experienced woodworkers with timber framing aspirations are urged to participate. The frame will be raised in spring 2012.