Log Furniture Building Books

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10 great projects you can build for fun or profit. The authors show how you can take sticks right out of the woodlot and start building. The short cuts and tips they offer take a lot of mystery out of building log furniture and show you "what you can get away with". 

Projects include:
Step stool, Bar stool, Coat rack, Ladder, Slab bench, Rustic Toy Box, Night stand/coffee table, Dining chair, Bed, Half log table

Softbound /156 Pages.

Check out their log furniture video also.

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Build Your Own Log Furniture

Author, teacher, rustic furniture maker King has assembled 28 popular projects each with step by step instructions and construction drawings.

Projects range from benches to stools, gates to fences, tables, shelves, trellises and planters

This book is well laid out with excellent illustrations and photographs.

Softbound 126 pages

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Rustic Garden Projects

Patterns from the Golden Age of Rustic Design (Softbound Version)

reprint of the 1938 National Park Service
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), Albert Good

This is 3 books reprinted as one.
Details and chronicles:

• Lodges
• Out buildings
• Bridges
• Furniture
• Sign boards 
• and many more of the National Parks' structures of that era. 

Structures  were heavy to log and stone. 
Lots of pictures, sketches, plans.
Log builders, designers, architects and contractors will find this a great book. 
The 3 volumes are bound as one for a 600 page behemoth
This is truly a one of a kind book. 

Includes lots of basic floor plans for many of the lodges, residences, cabins and outbuildings that you'll find in our National Forests.

The difference between the Hardbound and the Softbound are primarily different publishers of the same book. We've heard the photo quality in the softbound is slightly reduced (we didn't have a Hardbound available at the time this was written), however the sketches and text are plenty good...remember the photos were taken in the 30's so all black and white.

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Parks and Recreation Structures

Hardbound

$85.00
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Patterns from the Golden Age of Rustic Design

Softbound

$29.95

Nothing combines natural beauty and functionality more gracefully than a rustic bentwood trellis, arbor, gate or fence for your garden. Simple step-by-step instructions show you how to:

• Collect limbs from a wide variety of native trees as a part of the routine pruning
• Use those limbs to make beautiful, sturdy bentwood projects.

Featured are dozens of charming design ideas to suit any landscape, plus simple installation techniques. 
Additionally, there are designs that don't require bentwood, including a Craftsman-style arbor made of driftwood.
A list of vining type plants to grow on your trellis or arbor is included.

Jim Long is co-owner of Long Creek Herb Farm in Oak Grove, Arkansas, is an herbalist, author, landscape designer,, and syndicated gardening columnist.
  
Softbound / 155 Pages.

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Making Bentwood Trellises

$19.95

Make your own garden furnishings for the price of a few nails. Add a scarecrow to the vegetable patch, make a chair for along the garden path, a trellis for the roses, a woven fence against your low-growing shrubs or survey the beauty of your garden from the vantage point of a rustic arbor. This expanded edition adds 10 new projects for a total of 61, including a canopy covered garden bench, and a unique "tree" chair with a crazy quilt seat. Learn where to find the wood and basic techniques for working with twigs and vines. Birdhouses, feeders, furniture, drying racks, shelves, and garden markers. Projects for skill levels from beginners to experts. Beautiful illustrations and photographs.   Softbound / 256 Pages.

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Making Twig Garden Furniture

$24.95

Currently not available. We'll activate when reprinted

An introduction to the least expensive, most accessible form of woodcraft imaginable; making furniture from twigs, sticks, logs, driftwood, and scrap lumber. You probably have the tools. Most of the materials are free. Now discover the rich traditions, the stunning contemporary designs, and all the techniques you need to make your own fanciful and functional rustic furniture. Sumptuous color photo galleries show the incredible variety of contemporary rustic designs and provide an endless source of ideas for your own work.
Stories by and about modern and historic "rustic characters" reveal a liberating philosophy toward nature and craft that links rustic furniture makers across time and terrain. 
Several step by step projects.  

Softbound / 160 Pages.

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Making Rustic Furniture

$19.95

Making Twig Furniture and Household Things is a complete illustrated guide to building furniture that will bring to your home a hint of the wealth and elegance of the classic country cottage and give you a taste of your own capacity for can-do creativity.
Includes 53 projects ranging from very simple candleholders, picture frames, and baskets; all the way to settees, loveseats, folding chairs, and beds.
Simple, easy-to-follow instruction lead readers step0-by-step through each project. Learn where to find wood, basic woodworking techniques anyone with a handsaw and a hammer can use, how to work with birch bark, weaving twigs and grapevine, and the art of coppicing, (a simple harvesting system). Color photographs, illustrations and new additional new projects added since earlier additions.  

Softbound / 272 Pages.

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Making Twig Furniture & Household Things

$24.95

Currently not available. We'll activate when reprinted

No woodworking experience is required to make attractive, functional rustic furniture-in a weekend. Daniel Mack, one of the world's best known rustic craftsmen, explains the material and tools needed, and demonstrates such simple techniques as mortise and tenon joinery. If you can hammer a nail, you can make a ladder that will become a chair, bookcase, or room divider; several types of simple tables; a bentwood chair; a twig picture frame; and more. 
Daniel Mack is highly sought after as a teacher, lecturer, and designer.   

Softbound / 110 Pages.

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Rustic Furniture Workshop

$14.95