Build Your Own Log Home
Learn how to build your own handcrafted log home.
Choose a link below: free info, how-to book, scribers, courses, dvd, and more . . . . . . .
The Log Construction Manual
Here is the information you need to help you build your own handcrafted log home: detailed, practical instructions by an experienced builder and teacher. This is the best and most complete how-to book available, with detailed, how-to instructions and details that no other book has. The Log Construction Manual is the #1 selling how-to log home book.
More than 270 pages of valuable log building lessons. Hundreds of photos and drawings. Clearly written, with easy-to-understand explanations of all topics. Step-by-step directions. Log building secrets revealed by a master builder and teacher. Yoou can learn how to build like a professional, instead of like an amateur.
Inside pro "secrets," time saving tips, practical and detailed how-to instructions -- that's what my book is all about.
The Log Construction Manual book is the top selling log home book of all time!
Free Log Building Information
Go here for free downloads on a large variety of log building topics. There are more than 350Mb of free downloads available on this page, and links from this page. Some information has been gathered from other places, and some has been created by me for this website. It's got to be the biggest free log building library on the net!
On this page you'll find :
Video Clips of Scoring and Cutting Notches; the world's only Log Selection Calculator; Log Building Standards, Installing Doors and Windows in Log Walls, Finishes for Log Homes, Heating Systems for Log Homes, Fire Resistance of Log Walls, Gaskets, Standards, Engineering with logs, spiral grain info, R-values, Dovetail notching, and more . . .
I have re-designed a log home builder's most important tool from the ground up. These scribers are a huge advance. Based on more than 25 years of building handcrafted log homes, and teaching others to build.
I started from scratch, and designed a log-scriber that is accurate, comfortable, and is much easier to use. A scriber made for log builders. They don't look like anyone other scriber . . . . and they aren't like any other scriber, either.
I have used a lot of scribers, and over 27 years of log construction I have owned a lot of scribers, and the ChambersScribers are the best-designed and best-made scribers I have ever seen.
NOW FOR SALE. Click on this link for all the details about the ChambersScribers.
Hands-On Log Home Courses
Robert will be teaching two workshops in 2010.
Each course includes 13 days of hands-on instruction--a total of 26 days of learning. You will scribe logs, cut notches, fit logs, and learn log selection from Robert. We will build a log cabin shell in 4 weeks. Click this link to get all the details!
2008-9 workshops are completed. Big success--see photos on this link.
2010 workshops are planned for Russia and New Zealand.
DVD's -- 2010
Robert is filming a series of how-to DVD's. Filming on the first is finished and it's in post-production. DVDs will be available soon. Sorry, but the DVDs have been delayed a bit because I've been working on my log peeling machine and my new scribers!
Watch this website for details! You will be able to buy these from this website.
Log Peeling Machine
For Log Home companies, this industrial machine is a huge step forward in debarking and peeling logs for handcrafted log homes production. This machine produces a DRAWKNIFE finish automatically.
Prepares more than 100,000 lineal feet of logs per year (more than 30,000 lineal meters). This is not a machine for do-it-yourself builders. This is a machine for the log home industry.
Scheduled for availability in 2009.
Natural Log Homes
Robert Chambers builds log homes. Please visit the Natural Log Home's website for more information on handcrafted, full-scribe, ready-to-assemble log homes www.NaturalLogHomes.com
"Cut It Yourself" -- Handcrafted Log Building
I have invented a way that lets me full-scribe every single log of your log home at my construction yard, and then lets you cut all the notches and grooves at your place -- I call this great log home do-it-yourself kit "Cut-It-Yourself."
"Cut-It-Yourself" is the best way to build your own full-scribe-fit, handcrafted log home. I have been teaching people how to build their own log home from scratch for more than 20 years, and that method is difficult, requires a lot of tools and equipment and many skills, and is very, very slow going for first-timers. But . . . .
Cut-It-Yourself is easier, needs only a few tools, and is very fast for first-time-builders. Cut-It-Yourself is the answer to do-it-yourself log building worries—handcrafted, full-scribe-fit, but much, much easier! Click the link above for more details.
Robert W. Chambers
Robert Chambers has been building log homes since 1983, and teaching log construction since 1986, and he has hundreds of students around the world: Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Latvia, Russia, and Australia. Many of his students are professional log home builders. Many others have gone on to build their own log home.
Expert Witness— Robert is available as an expert witness for mediation, arbitraton, and lawsuits.
Robert invented the Accelerated Log Building Method (US and Canadian patents) and the Log Selection Rules.
Proud to be an active member since 1983.