Cob: Re: Cleft timber needs cob

[Patricia L. MacKenzie]

>From: "Adam Holmes" <holmesiow at hotmail.com>
>To: ruanmackenzie at hotmail.com
>Subject: Cleft timber needs  cob
>Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 03:37:48 GMT
>
>
>I have come across your name on the Cob Company page and am hoping you can 
>provide with contacts so my brother and I can visit/work/learn about cob 
>building.  Our background is timber and this is why we are staying in New 
>England coming from the U.K. Timber framing tends to be based around 
>straight lines, we aren't!  Log scribe is also to be learnt but mud and the 
>local patch is the way, we are going to build this way. Sustainability etc.
>We have hand tools for working wood, can camp are able and keen. We are 
>expecting to travel to some other? parts of the states. Courses will be 
>considered but we would prefer to learn as we help/work
>
>Thanks for any help     Adam & Simon Holmes
>
Dear Adam & Simon:
I'm not sure I am the person to contact - I myself have only been a 
subscriber to the Coblist about a month. However, I will do my best for 
references.
The first place I would suggest outside of Deatech and their archived 
coblist itself, would be the Cob Cottage Company. I believe they offer 
workshops, and I seem to recall the possibility of one in the New York State 
area, probably due to the lack of previous eastern US interest.
Another possible contact of similar construction, though not cob, would be 
to research the Internet (if possible) for Rob Roy. He (also a 
builder/contractor of a sort) did offer some alternative workshop building 
somewhere in the East but I lack his schedule or his address, however do 
believe he maintains a web page.
I am supremely limited in transportation and resources outside of the web - 
I'm walking - and can't attend any of these things so had to slack off 
collecting information regarding.
Good luck.
Hope you don't mind I send the correspondence to the Coblist.
Patricia.
Otherwise, I don't myself know of any here.
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