Mac is retiring from teaching workshops. His last onevwill be a stone workshop, held June 6-10, 2022. We'll leave the workshop information up for the time being.

Log Workshops
Loghouse

Tentative Dates
None


Learn the skills and techniques needed to build a hewn log cabin from scratch. Practice how to: hew logs with axe, adze and broadaxe; mark and
cut dovetail corner notches; peel bark with drawknives; move logs with peavey and timber carriers; and raise logs. Shingle splitting, chinking, tool-sharpening and other styles of log notching will be demonstrated. Students will attempt to complete all aspects of log cabin building in this week.


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