{"product_id":"the-very-efficient-carpenter-basic-framing-for-residential-construction","title":"The Very Efficient Carpenter — Basic Framing for Residential Construction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFifty years of framing, in two hammer swings.\u003c\/strong\u003e The book that taught a generation of carpenters how to frame a house fast — and frame it right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The definitive book on production framing.” — \u003cem\u003eFine Homebuilding\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔨 Stop guessing. Start framing.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarry Haun framed tract houses in Southern California for five decades alongside his brothers, in an era when a crew was expected to stand a house in days, not weeks. He was known on job sites for setting a nail in two blows. Then he spent twenty years teaching carpentry at community college and volunteering with Habitat for Humanity — learning how to hand the whole method to someone who had never picked up a framing hammer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is that method. Not the slow way, not the hobby way — the sequence a professional crew actually uses, with the wasted motion and wasted lumber taken out of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e📐 What's inside\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe complete frame, start to finish\u003c\/strong\u003e — tools, lumber grading, floors, walls, roofs and stairs, in the order a real crew builds them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWall layout and assembly\u003c\/strong\u003e — plating, cutting, nailing and raising walls the production way\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEvery roof you'll meet\u003c\/strong\u003e — gable, hip, valley and truss, each worked through step by step\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStair building\u003c\/strong\u003e made plain, including the layout math that stops most people cold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHundreds of photographs and drawings\u003c\/strong\u003e shot on working job sites, not in a studio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWritten for two readers\u003c\/strong\u003e — the homeowner who wants to save serious money doing it themselves, and the apprentice who needs to build professional speed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🏠 Why people keep buying a 1990s framing book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause framing hasn't changed. Lumber is still lumber, a rafter is still a rafter, and the sequence Haun teaches is still the sequence. It has stayed in print for over thirty years because working carpenters keep recommending it — and because nobody has explained it better since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e📖 Product details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Larry Haun (1931–2011), union journeyman carpenter and \u003cem\u003eFine Homebuilding\u003c\/em\u003e contributor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSeries:\u003c\/strong\u003e For Pros By Pros\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Taunton Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback, 224 pages, 8 × 10 in\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781561583263\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Little Sparkle Library","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46390820896825,"sku":"BOOK-VEC-PB","price":69.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4418\/7961\/files\/01-hero-workbench.jpg?v=1787683458","url":"https:\/\/littlesparklelibrary.com\/products\/the-very-efficient-carpenter-basic-framing-for-residential-construction","provider":"Little Sparkle Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}