Festival Cruck Frames.

Project: Festival Cruck Frames

Build Type: Timber Frame

Location: Presteigne, Wales

Date: Winter 2020

Company: Castle Ring Oak Frame

This was 3 week placement with the Castle Ring Oak Framers as part of the Princes foundation’s ‘Building Crafts Programme’. This wonderful programme took me around the country working with a wide range of expert carpenters and joiners on some amazing projects.

The time I spent at Castle Ring worked out brilliantly as the founder Rob is the director for a local festival called ‘Sheep Music’. Rob had designed a series of Chestnut ‘cruck’ frames that could be relatively easily assembled to make a bar and workshop space for the festival. I was lucky enough to work with Rob and Jake to take this project from the milled slabs of chestnut right through to erecting the frames in the sunshine within the ‘castle ring’ of Rob’s land.

This was bar far the highlight, I love small quirky structures so I couldn’t have asked for a better project to sink my teeth into and  seeing the curved ‘crucks’ up the air for the first time was such a satisfying feeling

For more of an insight into Castle Ring Oak Frame click the link below…