Build Your Own Log Home
Learn how to build your own handcrafted log home.
Choose a link below: free info, book, courses, dvd, and more . . . . . . .
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 from 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. You'll find things like:
Video Clips of Cutting Notches; 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, and plenty more . . .
Please keep in mind that my passion is handcrafted, scribe-fit, handmade log homes. If you're looking for information on 6" tongue and groove lincoln logs--do a Google search.
The Log Construction Manual
This 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 difficult topics. Step-by-step directions. Log building secrets revealed by a master builder. There is just no sense in learning how to build like an amateur . . . Instead, learn to build like the top professionals.
Inside pro "secrets," time saving tips, practical and detailed how-to instructions -- that's what my book is all about.
Hands-On Courses
Robert will be teaching two workshops in 2008. Each one 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 for the details!
Workshops are currently scheduled for November, 2008. These courses will sell out, so please be quick to register!
Robert is filming a series of how-to DVD's. Filming on the first is finished and it's in post-production. The second DVD will be finished filming in April. Both DVDs will be available in July or August, 2008. Watch this website for details!
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.