Log Construction Manual: The Ultimate Guide to Building Handcrafted Log Homes - Softcover

Chambers, Robert Wood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971573603 ISBN 13: 9780971573604

Publisher: Deep Stream Pr, 2002

Synopsis

This book tells you what you need to know to build your own handcrafted log home, and also reveals the deep rhythms and patterns of log construction. Chambers shows how to take naturally-shaped, tapered, round logs and scribe-fit them one to another so that they look like they actually grew together in the forest.

About this title

About the Author

Robert W. Chambers is a world-recognized authority on handcrafted log home construction. He has been building handcrafted log homes since 1983 (after graduating from the Mackie School in British Columbia). Chambers has been teaching and writing about log construction since 1987. He has taught log building in the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Russia. He is the Editor of Log Building News, the newsletter of the International Log Builders Association. He holds numerous log construction patents, including one for the world's only cut-it-yourself handcrafted, pre-scribed, log home kit.

From the Back Cover

Robert Chambers provides useful insights on organizing and financing your log home project, and has practical experience on cutting costs and avoiding common pitfalls.

This is a comprehensive book for log home owner-builders beginners as well as log home professionals.

From the Inside Flap

This books tells you what you need to know to build your own handcrafted log home, and also reveals the deep rhythms and patterns of log construction. Chambers will show you how to take naturally-shaped, tapered, round logs, and scribe-fit them one to another so that they look like they actually grew together int he forest.

Edition details

• Publisher: Deep Stream Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0971573603
• ISBN 13: 9780971573604
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260