Building a Traditional Log Cabin

[Windini]

Cool, but long, video. (2hrs) Fortunately, you don't need to speak Swedish to understand what's going on!

If you don't enjoy watching repetitive work, you can FF through a lot of it.

@BJSHOOTZ1 speaking of lumberjack tools!

 

[thrillhill]

What kind of new drug is this? I can't stop watching! LOL!

Got a little bit of tool lust going on too.

Good video!

 

[thrillhill]

This thread is gonna cost me.

So far only $18.

But the cost of all the other tools and time it's gonna take to build a cabin out of red cedar is gonna add up.

 

[Windini]

to build a cabin out of red cedar

Thank you for volunteering to post progress reports!

 

[GymB]

This thread is gonna cost me.

So far only $18.

But the cost of all the other tools and time it's gonna take to build a cabin out of red cedar is gonna add up.


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Now you need the matching tenoning bit that goes on a brace. With that and the auger you can quickly make a bench from a split log, a good place from which to watch the young bucks drag logs in from the forest!

 

[Gator]

Now you need the matching tenoning bit that goes on a brace. With that and the auger you can quickly make a bench from a split log, a good place from which to watch the young bucks drag logs in from the forest!

Kinda like this?



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[Windini]

Kinda like this?

Great video!

I find it interesting he's using a western-style bow saw (cuts on the push stroke). Most traditional Japanese saws cut on the pull stroke.

 

[GymB]

Kinda like this?



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Great video!

I find it interesting he's using a western-style bow saw (cuts on the push stroke). Most traditional Japanese saws cut on the pull stroke.

And he’s pushing the plane, traditionally they pull.
Claw hammer instead of a mallet.

cutting a square tenon is great for this sort of bench, but my tenon cutter is designed for things a lot rougher like a half log bench. You just put it on the end of a 2” branch and turn and it creates a 1.5” round tenon that you stick into the 1.5” hole you drill in the log. Much faster, no skill required, and when you’re done in camp you don’t feel bad about breking off the legs and tossing it into the woods.

 

[thrillhill]

but my tenon cutter is designed for things a lot rougher like a half log bench

Would you mind posting a picture of that cutter when you get some free time?

 

[Scsmith42]

Would you mind posting a picture of that cutter when you get some free time?

Bill, look up Veritas tapered tenon cutter. They are most commonly used for log furniture.

 

[Windini]

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[GymB]

Would you mind posting a picture of that cutter when you get some free time?

Mine are stashed away right now, didn’t know that Veritas was making them, pretty sure that mine came from https://www.lumberjacktools.com/pages/shop-tenon-cutters

Edit: @Windini beat me to it.

 

[Catfish]

That kid has a lot of hard learned skills to be so young. There has to be a mentor lurking somewhere off camera

 

[Alabamacoastie]

That kid has a lot of hard learned skills to be so young. There has to be a mentor lurking somewhere off camera

I KNOW, RIGHT!

It's impossible to do anything without an old man or woman hovering nearby, saying, "No, no, no. Do it like this!"

 

[Windini]

That kid has a lot of hard learned skills to be so young. There has to be a mentor lurking somewhere off camera

He actually gives credit to his Granma & Granpa at the end of the vid.

 

[Get Off My Lawn]

I was peeling, cutting and building log & timber homes when I was 16 for http://enertia.com/
Learned a lot quickly.