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, March 1st in the Athens, Georgia based newspaper. The feature article was about the two timber framers' upcoming appearance on the long-running History Channel television show Modern Marvels: Axes.

The article described how producers became interested in the Holder brothers after reading a timber frame blog that Gabel wrote highlighting some of his favorite tools to use when building hand crafted timber frames and hewing timber frames. The film crew and the producer from California came to Holder Bros. Timber Frames shop in February of this year and filmed Whit and Gabel hand hewing a log into a timber for a historic timber frame repair project.

"I just wrote the blog about axes to talk about one of my favorite tools to collect and use, the axe," said Gabel. "I had no idea it would turn into us being featured on a popular TV show and demonstrating some timber frame and hewing techniques with axes."

Watch the Georgia timber framers appearance on Modern Marvels: Axes, scheduled to air on May 30th.