World Famous Comics: How to Build and Furnish a Log Cabin: The easy, natural way using only hand tools and the woods around you
How to Build and Furnish a Log Cabin: The easy, natural way using only hand tools and the woods around you
By: W. Ben Hunt Publisher: Wiley Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 166 Publication Date: November 15, 1974 Studio: Wiley
Product Description: The only step-by-step guide to building log cabins and log furniture—Pioneer style
There are other manuals on building cabins, but W. Ben Hunt's is the only one to show you how to build and furnish an authentic pioneer cabin-the easy, natural way, using only hand tools and the woods around you. Our ancestors used logs and hand tools to build durable, dry, windproof, and protective dwellings; and they fashioned chairs, tables, branches, and bushes. In this day of power saws, lumberyards, and high prices, it's good to know that you can build in the same way.
How to Build a Log Cabin Part One provides complete directions for building cabins of three sizes: one-room, one-room and lean-to, and three-room. Just follow the clear instructions on every step of construction from choosing the site, clearing the tract, and building the foundation to installing fixtures, heating, and lighting.
How to Furnish a Log Cabin If you're not ready to build an entire cabin, you can try your hand at some of the small furnishings such as lamps, fences, and candlesticks. Part Two tells all you need to know to build and finish rustic furniture for an entire home: benches, tables, chairs, beds, cots, shelves, candelabras, gates, arbors, wayside stands, even road signs and birdhouses.
"Two Books in One" There are really two books in one here: Building a Log Cabin, published in 1947, and Rustic Construction, published in 1939. These two classics have been reproduced exactly as they first appeared, with the drawings and photographs that W. Ben Hunt selected and produced for the original editions.
Cabin fever ^ Book is well written with outstanding illustrations on preperation and construction of a basic to complex log cabin. It also includes a section on furnishing a cabin, which is also one of his other books 'Rustic Construction', so its like getting two books in one. If you ever had a desire to build a cabin, this is the one book to get.
How to Build and Furnish a Log Cabin ^ I bought this book as a Christmas gift. The person I bought it for was very pleased with it.
cool ^ cool book in need of some more details but if your looking to dream about building a cabin this is a dream builder to start with
A good book for sure; more req'd than what's in the woods around you though.... ^ I loved the book. It will help you gain a better understanding of many of the details that must be considered when building a log cabin, from tools, to site selection, to the joints used in joining log corners, to the installation of windows and doors.
I will say though, that the part of the title "using only hand tools and the woods around you" is total bull. He calls for all kinds of things that cannot be foraged from the woods, like portland cement and 20 penny nails to name a couple.
I wish I could find a book that took that title to heart and actually used only natural materials; if such a book does exsist this is surely not the one.
VERY GOOD ^ I bought this book not planning to build a log cabin but just for general knowledge. The book is quite sound in it's advice although somebody building a log cabin today would certainly use some more modern techniques. However, I will say that if you needed to build a log structure basically by hand this book could probably get you through it. It may not be a resort but it will be dry. I particularly liked the section on rustic furniture and fence building. I built several of the projects and they turned out quite well. This book is good for any fan of the outdoors and rustic building. Just amazing to think that not too long ago this is basically how things were done.
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