Posts in the «natural timbers» Category
- Rip Sawing an Old Log While doing the preparation for building a cedar double chaise lounge, I had collected several old fallen red cedar logs from the forest surrounding our home. It seemed that one of the logs turned out to be more than my bandsaw could handle (8.5" re-saw clearance) . The log was close to 14" in diameter. [...]
- Sawing Square to What?
Every time I start a “natural timber” project where logs and branches are used without flat surfaces, I end up dealing with issues related to cutting “square” to something that is round or at least round-ish. They are seldom perfectly round, and rarely straight. So when cutting them to length or cutting shoulders for a [...]
- Drawshaving Larger Posts
I’ve done quite a bit of work around here using old cedar logs as posts for deck railing, gates and light posts. The wood is readily available as the forests near by seem full of old dead cedar trees that couldn’t keep up with the oaks and other giants. When the cedars died, their roots [...]
- Round Tenon Maker
When making a swinging gate out of natural cedar timbers for my deck, I had the need to make round tenons on the ends of some cedar branches. If I was doing a lot of them, it would have made sense to buy a dedicated round tenon cutter that is driven by a power drill. These [...]
- Rustic Wooden Deck Railing
The deck on our log home overlooks the lake. It needed a railing for safety but we didn’t want a railing that would block our view. So we decided to use stainless steel cable railing, but needed the posts to fit the style of our log home.
The forest around our home is primarily [...]