Company News

New Shop for Holder Bros!

Jan 15, 2013

We recently moved into a new (to us) timber framing shop in downtown Monroe.  We are really excited to be located at The Walton Mill -- a historic industrial facility that operated as a cotton mill until 2006.  Our shop is in two of the old cotton warehouses and...
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Gabel Holder elected to Timber Framers Guild Board of Directors

Nov 24, 2010

Gabel Holder was recently elected to a three year term on the Board of Directors of the Timber Framers Guild. The Timber Framers Guild is "a non-profit educational membership association dedicated to the craft of timber framing. We serve as a center of timber frame infor...
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Holder Bros. Receive Journeyworker Certification

Oct 12, 2010

Monroe, Georgia Whit and Gabel Holder were recently accepted as certified journeyworkers in the newly started <a href="http://www.tfguild.org/Apprenticeship/TFGApprenticeshipbrochure.pdf">Timber Framers Guild Apprenticeship Program</a>. The Holder Bros. were selected ...
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On the Newsstand...

Oct 16, 2009

The Holiday 2009 issue of Lake Oconee Living Magazine as just been released and it features an article on a Holder Bros. project. <a href="http://www.holderbros.com/default/download/310">"Barn Again"</a> by April Moore Skelton tells the story of <a href="http://www.holde...
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Timber Framers Guild Project

Jun 14, 2009

June 14th--Whit and Gabel Holder just returned from Brasstown, NC where they helped to lead a large community timber frame project with the Timber Framers Guild. This project was just finished on June 13th. Check our blog for details. Here are some short video teaser...
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The Holder Brothers to instruct at TFG Project

Apr 28, 2009

Both Whit and Gabel Holder have been chosen by the Timber Framers Guild to be senior instructors at the John C. Campbell Blacksmith Shop Project. Instructors, volunteers, and students will build a 60x60 timber frame barn using over 20,000 board feet of white pine and...
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Article Published in Guild Journal

Oct 30, 2008

Timber Framing, the quarterly journal of the Timber Framers Guild, recently published an article written by Whit Holder. The June 2008 issue featured "Snap Line Square Rule"--a carpenter’s perspective on a layout system that accounts for imperfect timber. The article ...
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Holder Brothers asked to demonstrate hewing in England

Aug 28, 2008

Whit and Gabel Holder will be traveling to Essex, England this month to demonstrate traditional timber framing techniques to an international group of carpenters. The brothers, who have been asked to demonstrate American axe work, will use felling axes and broad axes to ...
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Holder Brothers Timber Frames featured in Athens, Georgia newspaper

Apr 09, 2008

Recently, the Athens Banner-Herald newspaper featured Whit and Gabel Holder, co-owners of Holder Brothers Timber Frames, on the front page of the paper and on the web site's home page. "Monroe brothers are 'Marvels' with an ax" was the headline that ran on Saturday, Marc...
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Career Opportunities

Feb 17, 2008

Due to a sustained increase in the demand for our services, Holder Bros. Timber Frames is seeking an experienced timber frame carpenter to join our company. Duties of this position include laying out, cutting, and raising all manner of timber frames using a wide variety ...
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This frame is big enough to house a spacious apartment, eight horse stalls, several hundred square bales of hay, and all your tractors and implements with room to spar...

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New Shop for Holder Bros!

We recently moved into a new (to us) timber framing shop in downtown Monroe.  We are really excited to be located at The Walton Mill -- a historic industrial facility that operated as a cotton mill until 2006.  Our shop is in two of the old cotton warehouses and we have really been enjoying the space, the wonderful old brick walls, and the downtown location ri... read more

Barns

Right now we are in the middle of cutting the joinery for a nice big timber frame horse barn that we will be raising next month in the next county over.