Log Cabin Secrets: Book 3: Dovetails

Secrets of Log Cabin Construction, Design, and Techniques Insider tips, tricks and secrets. Book 3 shows you how to build a log cabin with dovetail notches.This is the only book that teaches handcrafted, full-scribe dovetail construction. There are other books about chinked log cabins, but Log Cabin Secrets shows, for the first time anywhere, how to build full-scribe-fit dovetail cabins. These are truly Dovetail Secrets! Dovetails: Book 3 How to build dovetail log homes and cabins, with all the details about: using bowed logs, how to hew (flatten) logs, how big the notches should be, whether dovetails should be underscribed, how to make dovetails that keep out air and water, how to strengthen hewn walls, and how to score and cut dovetail pins. Robert's goal: wooden zippers. You can get dovetails so beautiful and so strong that they look like your walls have been zipped together. Detailed, Step-by-Step Instructions to make it easy for you Robert is known for his ability to clearly describe how-to tasks—and to teach. His best-selling book, the LOG CONSTRUCTION MANUAL has been at the top of the charts for more than 15 years, with more than 60,000 copies sold. His DVD series of video instruction has taught hundreds of people to build their own log home. And his hands-on courses have been offered around the world, and attended by nearly 1000 professional and DIY log builders. Now in this series, Chambers tells us his log construction secrets. With more than 35 years experience at the top of the handcrafted log home industry, Robert Chambers now tells his log building secrets in this new book series. "Scribed Dovetails is an excellent volume that is now part of our crew's training manual.Clear text combined with great photos and illustrations make a complex subject very clear.If you are thinking of building a dovetail house this is essential reading.Almost as good as having him come to our yard to teach" John Boys, Nicola Logworks, Canada Upcoming in Robert's Secrets series: piece-en-piece, log home design, expanded log construction, building in halves, accelerated log building, log staircases, and installing doors and windows in log walls.