Dovetail Log Cabin - Cutting Dovetail Notches

With Ryan's youtube.com/post/Ugkxy_pn55PK60wAV3X_C_RoLS_67mNon… plan I was like one taken by the hand and led step by step from start to finish. Thank you very much Ryan!

Thank you for the video I’m always looking to improve you did a great job

Loved the jig idea, hope someday to have a dovetail log home, but even if I never do I think they make beautiful homes and cabins and I appreciate the skill involved in building of them.

Very ingenious! Can’t wait to watch more of your build.

Thanks for sharing....great idea with the jig. Enjoy your Small Cabin Living

Fajna i bardzo precyzyjna metoda👍💪

I grew up on the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington near the town of Poulsbo. On most of the old farms there was a noticable Skandinavian influance and many of the out buildings were made with the dove tail logs. Some had coved bottoms and rounded tops. I suspect all were hand hewn. I'm sure they would have loved to have your saws and jigs. Thanks for the viceo.

The bug wisdom is the most Canadian thing on the Youtube.

I just about finished my 16 x16 with an 8 porch using the same dovetail jig. It worked out fantastic and after about 1-1/2 years the first joints I did are still very tight. Great system, good luck with the project.

All of us in the office here at Log Home Mart of Wisconsin Rapids, WI absolutely love this video. Very well done.

Awesome!

Хорошие приспособы. Методика выпиливания лапы доступно изложена. Спасибо ! 🧤

I built a cabin just like yours with the dovetails almost thirty years ago only difference was I left the live edges top and bottom on the log and cut my notches with out the jig. I enjoyed felling the trees and milling the logs with the chain saw , I even put a half story on the cabin and my floors and roof were made of poles and planks that were taken from the property. My foundation was a drystack rock that I also harvested from the land which on the downhill side was as tall as me and I'm over 6 foot. All in all the cabin took awhile but turned out looking like it had fallen out of a fairytale because it was created using material harvested on site. Great video it brought back some fond memories of my time in the high country.

👍 nice job !

Excellent.

Amazing work. My grandfather did build his house in 1953 using the same technique back in Former Yugoslavia

Thanks for sharing your humble video. Filming and sound quality are very good. Great work bro!!

Nice work! That’s going to be beautiful and very rewarding! Thanks for sharing

Handcrafted log houses have been built for centuries in the Eastern parts of Finland. Also in Scandinavia, Russia and Eastern Europe, and were typically built using only an axe and knife. The settlers from the northern Europe brought the craft to North America in the early 17th century, where it was quickly adopted by other colonists and Native Americans. Possibly the oldest surviving log house in the United States is the C. A. Nothnagle Log House (circa 1640) in New Jersey. The Dovetail is designed to shed water in every direction which is why they are still standing more than 350 years later.

I'm glad I work in millimetres, can't beat a good jig