Build Your Own Log Furniture

by Les Smith

Includes step-by-step instructions for projects, history of log furniture & an extensive index. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970704607
• ISBN13: 9780970704603
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Cowboy-Up Log Furniture
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A good starting place

There are few reference works available in this category. Fortunately, this one is a useful, helpful, and clear guide to the art of making log furniture. We have yet to faithfully follow any of the authors' detailed step-by-step plans. The text and pictures were clear enough to enable us to start right off making our own derivative designs. Thanks, guys!

Excellent

I found this book to be very useful in building my first piece of log furniture. In fact my first project is a log bed (under construction at this time). There are few resources available that teach you how to build log furniture. Dan and Les have written a no nonsense book with detailed information on wood, tools, finishes and etc. The plans are reasonably clear and concise and there are lots of tips that can help reduce the "ooops" factor when building your first piece of furniture. The tools required are simple and fairly inexpensive. If you want to build your own log furniture then buy this book. My only negative coment is that I wish there were a few more projects to chose from.

Build Your Own Log Furniture by Les Smith , Dan Swesey

Being a beginner this book gave me alot of ideas and step by step insturctions and choices that other books did not.

Wonderful "Talk right to you" book

Les has the ability to make it sound as if he is talking right to you in this book. I have just taken an interest in rustic and log furniture and was very happy to get this book from e-bay,and he included his signature!.The book has several different suggestions, not making one way the only way to do things.thank you les for your wonderful guidience as I start my new hobby!jharriet

Thanks!!!

For a complete woodworking novice such as myself, this one and only manual on building your own log furniture has proven to be worth its weight in gold. The authors walk you through all stages of log furniture construction--from acquiring the necessary tools, wood, etc., to completing numerous projects, including the ultimate prize: a beautiful log bed. While the authors are thorough in their details, they are careful to continually remind the reader to infuse his or her own creativity in the process, leaving some of the specifics of certain the projects up to the reader's desires and imagination. All in all, a wonderful introduction to a craft that produces tremendous rewards for all levels of ability, and one which is not at all inappropriate for those who have absolutely no woodworking experience nor a workshop full of expensive power tools, such as myself. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to work with wood, loves the look and feel of log furniture but doesn't want to pay the often prohibitively high prices for such items in retail stores, and/or wants to explore a new, highly rewarding hobby (or perhaps even a profession).