The TimberVerseJakub Gawel Woodworking

Mynydd Nefyn · Llŷn Peninsula · North Wales

Things worth building.Skills worth learning.

Rustic timber structures, practical woodworking sessions and real projects turned into plans, lessons and ideas.

01Builds 02Learn & Make 03Projects & Plans
The finished timber greenhouse: larch frame on a block plinth, glazed walls, clad gable with a ledged door and a clear corrugated roof

Timber greenhouse · 27 panes · 216 beads

Then it gets built for real.

From tree to build

Every build starts as a log.

The TimberVerse brings together rustic timber building, practical learning and real projects made to be shared.

Based on the Llŷn Peninsula, I build saunas, pods, shepherd huts, frames, sheds, and bigger and smaller projects using local timber wherever possible. The same builds also become hands-on sessions, visual guides, plans and ideas to help other people learn by making.

A stack of freshly felled larch logs
01 · Felled

Local logs

Larch and softwood from close to home, stacked and marked before milling.

 A log on a sawmill bed being cut into boards
02 · Milled

Cut to size

Logs go through the mill and come out as beams, boards and slabs.

 Timber frame of a garden house
03 · Framed

Raised by hand

Posts, plates, braces and rafters. The frame is where a building starts to feel real.

 The Hobbit sauna glowing at dusk
04 · Lived in

Used every day

Saunas, pods, garden rooms and kitchens that people actually use.

Three ways in

A larch-clad glamping pod with a deck

Builds

01

Hobbit sauna, glamping pods, shepherd huts, garden rooms, timber frames and commissions.

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Four learners with the nest boxes and tool totes they made

Learn & Make

02

Woodworking sessions, adult and SEN learning, practical maths through making, and private build days.

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Projects & Plans

03

Build films, real photos, cut lists and step-by-step plans you can make at home or in a group.

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Featured build · Personal

The Hobbit sauna.

My own sauna, built from timber with a round, arched front. It's wood-fired, sits at the end of a stone path and gets used all year.

The Hobbit sauna in snow, with a stepping-stone path

After dark

Lit warm from inside.

At dusk the glazed front turns into a lantern. The arch is built from curved ribs, and the boards are bent and fixed to them one at a time.

The sauna lit up at dusk

Inside

Two tiers of slatted benches.

Hidden strip lights sit under the benches, so you see the grain and not the bulbs. Every board inside was cut to follow the curve.

Inside the sauna: curved timber ceiling and lit benches

Around it

A fire-pit table, benches and a waney-edge fence.

The sauna is part of a whole garden of timber pieces, all built in the same rustic style.

An octagonal fire-pit table with rustic benches More builds →

Projects & Plans · No. 01

One board. Seven parts. A home for a bird.

Watch the Apex Nest Box get cut from one plank and come together in 3D. Then build it yourself with the easy plan.

1Board
7Parts
86%Timber used
Four learners standing behind the nest boxes and tool totes they built

Community

Woodworking for wellbeing.

Group sessions where adults build something real, use the maths without noticing, and leave with a nest box or tool tote they made themselves.

Now runningColeg Menai · PotensialWoodworking for wellbeing in community adult learning.
DeliveredGrŵp Llandrillo Menai · MultiplyWoodworking sessions to build adult numeracy.
Community work →

Build Review

Planning your own timber project?

Send me what you're working on and let's go through it: sizes, timber, joints, cut list and what to watch for.

Send your project → Enquire about a build