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Build Your Own Log Furniture
by Les Smith, Dan Swesey
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Cowboy-Up Log Furniture (2001-03-01)
ISBN: 0970704607
EAN: 9780970704603
Dewy Decimal #: 684.104
Paperback: 160 pages
SKU: SA08061732x
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Exactly as shown, Covers flat and shiny, Spine uncreased, Text clean with NO marks.
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Editorial Reviews
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Book Description
You can learn how to build log furniture like the pros! Using this 160 pg. information packed how to book. Over 200 pictures & illustrations & easy to understand directions. You can soon be building for fun or profit.BED FRAMES,BAR STOOLS,BENCHES ect. Book is endorsed by MINWAX & includes their recommendations on finishing. The secrets and information revealed in this book are:MARKETING, LOGS AND MATERIAL,TENNON &MORTISE,TOOLS,SANDING,DRILLING 10 PROJECTS & MUCH MORE! This is the newest & best book available for the rustic furniture building industry. If your looking for a new career in rustic log furniture building,"this is the book!"Learn this great "old skill" and move toward greater self sufficiency and a sense of accomplishment.
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Customer Reviews
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Why the drastic price increase ??
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-03-09
I bought this book in 2004 and found it and the video very helpful . In 2004 I paid a total of around $55.00 for both .
Now I need a second copy of the book and find it listed by itself for $52.00.
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Don't Waste Your Money
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-03-23
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book spends very little print space dealing with "how to", and a large amount of space promoting Minwax products, the wide array of power tools required, and how to market your product once it is made. I am a very experienced woodworker. I have all of the recommended tools, and with all of those Minwax sealers, stains and oils. But I am at the same place as a novice as to the fundamentals of selecting wood, debarking, drying, making tenons, drilling accurate mortices, etc. This book was no help whatsoever.
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rustic furniture
Rating (4)
Date: 2005-07-27
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Inspiring ideas for tools and furniture for someone in the coppicing industry in United Kingdom.
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Practical book, but too little text
Rating  (3)
Date: 2005-06-16
12 out of 13 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a practical book for working with dry softwood logs. Among others, it has 15 pages on tools, 35 p. on some basics (joinery, finishes...) and 50 p. on various projects. However this includes some big pictures and a lot of white space, or wasted space (e.g. a check list covering 4 pages, with only 15 items /page, and looking useless and stupid to me, pp. 37-40), so that in the end there is not much text per page in average. Although some traditional tools are exposed, everything in the book is meant to be made with power tools (but one could also use traditional tools).
This book does contain some real, practical teaching to help you build things (unlike a book with a deceptive title, Daniel Mac's Making Rustic Furniture). However, as it has so much white space and so little text, I think that it is definitely not worth its price (maybe it should be sold for about 10 dollars?).
If you want to get something for your money, buy instead Drew Langsner's Green Woodworking.
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A good starting place
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-11-09
7 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
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!
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