Log Cabin Secrets

Secrets of Log Cabin Construction, Design, and Techniques

Insider tips, tricks and secrets. Books 1 & 2 show you how to layout and cut mitered notches. These books teach you how to build roof trusses and log post-and-beams with mitered construction. True Joinery Secrets!

Mitered Joinery

How to build trusses for log homes and cabins, with all the details about: using naturally-shaped logs. Building roof trusses using logs has been expensive and...
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Secrets of Log Cabin Construction, Design, and Techniques

Insider tips, tricks and secrets. Books 1 & 2 show you how to layout and cut mitered notches. These books teach you how to build roof trusses and log post-and-beams with mitered construction. True Joinery Secrets!

Mitered Joinery

How to build trusses for log homes and cabins, with all the details about: using naturally-shaped logs. Building roof trusses using logs has been expensive and difficult....until now. These new mitered methods eliminate the obstacles that builders have faced for years: like scribing, lofting, weak coped joints, tight fits ruined by log shrinkage, and ugly necking-down of logs. Mitered joinery works with tapered, naturally-shaped logs (and also with milled logs and live-edge timbers). Book 2 introduces two layout methods that have never seen before: a powerful, but small STORYBOARD which is like a portable lofting deck that you carry from log to log. And a SPREADSHEET Layout Method in which you measure log diameters, enter those numbers into a free spreadsheet that Robert has made; and it tells you the correct adjusted angles for all the cut-lines.

• BENEFITS: no lofting deck is needed; no need to level logs lengthwise; no requirement to position logs carefully over each other in three-dimensions; no lasers; no scribers; no plumb-bobs. Works outdoors or indoors. And you get strong joints that look as natural and beautiful as if they were scribe-fit (but weren't!).
• EASY LAYOUT (snap chalkiness on the logs); mark the cut-lines (easy angles); use a homemade jig, or just a small piece of plywood as a layout table. Easy to follow, step-by-step directions are provided.
• STRONG: mitered joints have the design and features that structural engineers look for in a good notch.
• MORE THAN TRUSSES: Mitered Joinery can also be used to build post-and-beam structures, timber frame, and log decor and log accents--this method is not just for roof trusses.

Detailed, Step-by-Step Instructions to make it easy for you

Robert's goal: beautiful and strong joinery. 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 new series, 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.

"Robert Chambers is, bar none, the best teacher of advanced log construction techniques in the industry. Clear text combined with great photos and illustrations make a complex subject very clear."

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, special notches, installing doors and windows in log walls.