Roundwood (Log) Furniture

Take a look at pine resin epoxy if you wish to use an organic glue. It's a combination of pine sap that's slow boiled and then mixed with powdered charcoal. It will be brittle if you use too much charcoal, and weak if you use too little, but there is a sweet spot. It was used by the native Americans. I've played with it some and can confirm that the right mixture is indeed strong. Best thing about it is that you can get all ingredients in virtually any forest.

The glue is black in color. One would have to be careful in its application if the piece were to be of show quality.

Wow what talent beautiful thank you

Very nice.  Well Done.

How very cool all of this is. I have a few prices, some from yard sales and some from the Amish here who have a big annual auction. There is also a fellow who lives up in the Task, northwest of Libby, who does lovely furniture. My girlfriend has many pieces and he has built very sturdy wood racks for us.

I love all the awesome roundwood work! In my wanderings through the internet, I ran across this roundwood orchard ladder. I like the idea of being able to make a ladder just from sticks harvested from the woods!

Working on a log coffee table. Maple and oak. Will be doing the top with slab (s) of oak milled from our logs. All the materials are from our site. I am using the Lumberjack tools for this, but it can be done with a drawknife to shape the tenons and a brace and bit for the mortices and a saw.

As I'm just getting started with my off grid place which I intend to eventually have turned into a simi self sufficient homestead one of the first things I've done is to have a clearing created to construct my buildings on and I am using the natural materials along with some reclaimed things like pallets and wood from an old chicken coop to make a few things I know I'll need. I had to have a bulldozer come create the clearing so I could drag a couple of old campers in for storage and housing as we wanted to immediately stay here and eliminate all our city bills as well as free myself from the hassle of working a job to pay those bills. I'm not sure how long it will take for me to get things in order and began my cabin which I expect to take quite a while just to gather enough logs and get them prepped for the construction but I wanted to get started right away and not be worried about shelter. The thing that I'm most concerned about is wither or not I will be able to source enough of the timber from my land as most of the trees here are crooked oak and young pine with a few cedar, juniper, and elm in the mix.

I'm building my off-grid farm and office/cabin from scratch, and my lovely mother likes to come visit and help out whenever possible.  

It's always a huge morale booster for me to share a working meal with family.

I made this quick and easy, fastener-free table with a chainsaw and mill to make future family meals even more enjoyable.

Just wanted to show off my little chair I made from beaked hazel! The 2020 Holiday Farm fire in Oregon killed several younger wild hazel trees in the understory. The resulting wood is very straight and the bark is shiny silver.

Paul just released this short video of Mike Haasl building roundwood timber stairs. He uses his shaving horse creation to create the dowels that replace nails! His technique looks like the same as building the chairs.

A new video from Paul, pure wood log picnic table built at Wheaton Labs during the Permaculture Technology Jamboree: