OT-making log furniture

Bigdaddy4430 · Sep 3, 2013

Would like to try this,would anybody have any tips on it.What brand tool would anyone recommend?

Lyndon - AB · Sep 3, 2013

(quoted from post at 08:51:57 09/03/13) Would like to try this,would anybody have any tips on it.What brand tool would anyone recommend?

Look on Lee Valley Tools' website. They might have a book about it, or something similar. You might also get ideas for tools that would work. I know I do, every time I walk in the store!

Mike (WA) · Sep 3, 2013

Have never made log furniture, but the nature of the material (irregular, some bends and twists, have to cut on various angles) sure seems like it would be a natural for a rechargeable Sawz-all. Once you get good with one, you can make about any kind of cut you want "free hand".

Mike M · Sep 3, 2013

I saw in I think ? was a Grizzly tool book a tool to bore the holes and form the ends of small logs into pegs to go into the holes.

JD2ACWD · Sep 3, 2013

get yourself a tenon cutter,and a heavy duty drill,made log beds for my son and myself,they work great

da.bees · Sep 3, 2013

If you already own basic tools and don't want to invest in dedicated tenon jigs,consider regular mortis & tenon that can be done with a router and/or,rasp,drill and chisel. Pegs through the joint increases strength even more. I don't have a pic of a through tenon with wedge but that makes a very strong joint also. There is also a "domino joint"which is simply a mortis in both parts into which fits a dowel shaped like a domino which alows it to be much bigger than conventional dowels. Glue now days is amazingly strong so if you havn't glued wood in the last 20 years,try some.

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