The logs on the right have the dovetailing.The logs on the left are actually two pieces split.One on top ,the other on the bottom.That is a Scandinavian style log building.The split logs are so tight they look solid,but if you look close you can see where they are joined.
Surely some pretty wood work. Scandinavian I can see based on the way they stack wood.
Bit of patience required I imagine.
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And I thought this round bottom dovetail I found on the drawer of my sidetable was pretty cool. Drawer was getting loose so I took it out to glue it an found this:
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Complex Joinery is not form the faint of heart. Like this joint is an optical illusion.
Dude has got some serious skills and those chisels are incredible. I wonder what a set of those would cost.
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Nice job Fatcity. I was trying to figure out a way to annotate the picture, you beat me to it. You can see the individual piths and corresponding rings of each tree used for each log course. So like you pointed out, the construction is typical of a commonly stacked log home, albeit with significantly more attention to the joinery between the logs and at the corners.
I have vast experience in building log cabins. Most have been with logs flat on the side, and the dovetail notch. The dovetail notch is rather difficult to cut properly, but is mechanically very sound as each log locks the adjacent logs into position. I also have build two cabins with round logs and the saddle notch. This notch is easy to cut and also a solid notch. Both of these styles use chinking between the logs, as there is about a 1 inch air space between the logs. The house I live in is made this way with the dovetail notches, and it is, if I do say so myself, a beautiful cabin and snug and warm in the winter.
This guy is doing a complicated fancy dovetail notch, along with Scandavian full length scribing, In which each log is scribe to fit onto the log beneath. No chinking is used. This guy is a real artist and a master of the trade. Beautiful work.
I would love to get in the time machine and work for a few weeks with this guy as an apprentice.