Complete book of framing: an illustrated guide for residential construction 2nd edition

by Scot Simpson (Author)

I’m a framing contractor. I’ve spent most of my career as a lead framer, directing my framing crews and training workers to become framers.

In my teaching, I found that much of the information I needed was not available in a good book, so I wrote one, Framing & Rough Carpentry.

As I started spending more of my time training and working with lead framers, I again looked for a good,
easy-to-understand reference.

I didn’t find what I needed, so I wrote another book, Advanced Framing Methods, that provides all the information a framer needs to move up to the next level—becoming a lead framer.

The Complete Book of Framing is the combination of those two books, updated with full color illustrations and

photographs, plus additional information—all presented in what I’ve come to think of as a “framer-friendly” format.
If you’re a novice with no framing experience, you’ll see the basics of framing shown in a simple, step-by-step style that makes it easy to learn.

Where possible, I included both photographs and drawings for each step—for quick and complete learning.

The advanced information will be more difficult for a novice to understand, but getting a good feel for the framing basics that come before it will help.