Build Your Own Log Home
Learn how to build your own handcrafted log home.
Choose a link below: free info, how-to book, hands-on courses, DVDs, and more . . . . . . .
My new book series : LOG CABIN SECRETS
The first FIVE books of my new series are available.
Books 1 and 2 :: Mitered Joinery—the best way to build log roof trusses, log post-and-beam structures, and log accents.
Book 3 :: Dovetails — Comprehensive, step-by-step instructions on full-scribe dovetails--this information is available in NO other book.
Book 4 :: Superior Methods — has more new material than maybe any of the other books in this series: I tell all the secrets of super methods for building full-size log cabins and home with complex designs, but using only simple 4-wall log shells. Expanded style, Hybrid log homes, Log Panel (piece-en-piece), modular construction, merging top and bottom halves, and Accelerated.... Almost all these methods have NEVER been written about—these are my secret methods.
Book 5:: Log Home Design, Stairs, and Special Notches — My secrets for log home DESIGN...based on more than 35 years experience building log cabins. Loads of practical solutions to common design and construction errors. ALSO: the super secrets of MODULAR construction..... an easy way to build larger log homes without the hassles that come with log shells that have a dozen notches. Build your home by combining simple 4-wall shells into a large home of all designs, shapes and sizes. STAIRS — building safe and attractive staircases using logs. The fundamentals to get you started. Six simple rules to make construction much easier and faster. Using logs with root-balls for posts. Rise and Run. And Chapter 3 is SPECIAL NOTCHES — square notches, lock-notches, 'dragon beams' and a new notch that has loads of promise: the curved plane, scribed notch. The DESIGN chapter along of Book 5 is worth buying this book...it has secrets and advice that I guarantee will improve your house or cabin (or lodge!)
Book 1 - Mitered Joinery
Book 2 - Advanced Mitered Joinery
Book 3 - Building Dovetail Log Cabins
Book 4 - Superior Methods — Secrets for Efficient Building
Book 5 - Log Home Design Secrets, Log Stairs, Special Notches
AND . . . more secrets to come!
The Revised Log Construction Manual
The Ultimate Book about building your own log home
Revised and Updated. FULL Color
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 information that is in no other book. The Log Construction Manual is the #1 selling how-to log home book.
The Log Construction Manual book is the top selling log home book of all time.
Also available as eBOOK for Apple / Mac Devices ONLY. (Not for phones.)
Click this link to get a free sample of the eBOOK, and to buy — tinyurl.com/RevisedLogConstructionManual
DVDs
Building Log Walls
Robert teaches you the techniques you'll need to succeed at building your own log home.
As they say: "You can't learn how to dance by looking at photos in a book of people dancing."
Get the videos and see me cutting, scribing, and more (sorry...no video of me dancing).
I am confident that my DVDs put people about one year ahead on their log cabin projects. One year faster—that's pretty darn good for $90.
3x DVD discs -- ~ 5 hours of video. See them in Robert's WEBSTORE.
ALL 5-Star reviews at Amazon —customers agree-- "The BEST log home DVDs ever! "
Free Log Building Information and Downloads
Go here for free downloads on a large variety of log building topics. There are more than 800 Mb 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!
- Expert Witness -
Robert Chambers has been building log homes since 1983, and teaching log construction since 1988. He has had more than 1000 students around the world: Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Romania, and Australia. Many of his students are professional log home builders. .
Expert Witness & Consultant— Robert is available as an expert witness for mediation, arbitration, and lawsuit. References available for his experience as a log home expert witness.
1-651-644-8095 or email Robert
My new Classic Scribers are available for pre-order. I think these are the cleanest, most accurate, most elegant scribers I have ever designed and built. Preicision CNC milled for you in Germany.
I HAVE STARTED TO OFFER HANDS-ON COURSES — most recently in September 2022 in Wisconsin...see photos and more.
Request information from Robert. A fantastic machine that prepares logs that look completely hand-peeled with a drawknife. Pays for itself in as little as 18 months.
"Cut It Yourself" -- Handcrafted Log Building
I 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 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 1988. He has hundreds of students around the world: Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Romania, and Australia. Many of his students are professional log home builders. Many others have gone on to build their own log home.
Expert Witness & Consultant— Robert is available as an expert witness for mediation, arbitration, and lawsuits.
Robert invented the Accelerated Log Building Method (US and Canadian patents) and the Log Selection Rules.
Proud to be an active ILBA member since 1983.
