Log cabin

[ezdays]

   

Hokie, dokie, I surrender. I've made about four different cutting jigs for my stick logs and none of them work because of the inconsistencies of the sticks (thickness, bends). That, plus the tendencies to split rather than cut clean has driven me two steps closer to hitting the bottle. I have a different plan now for those sticks, so Jim, they will not go unused, think Piece en Piece, (a no-notch cabin building technique).

My new plan for the cabin logs is to go with balsa wood. I made a cutting jig in about 20 minutes that I can cut the logs to length and get consistent V notches at the ends without anything splitting or breaking off. The downside is that I will have to stack the logs as they did back in the old days, one log at a time, but I think that will be fun.

   

So, here's what I'm going to use to notch and size the logs, then stack them. The male part of the notch is cut with an Xacto knife. So, lets see if I can make progress this time.