This is pretty cool.

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https://www.facebook.com/reel/162693640 ... 7S9Ucbxw6v

If you don't have a Facebook account, maybe borrow someone's else, or maybe someone will find the same video on youtube.

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Baking soda and cyanoacrylate glue. It cures instantly and makes a great cement. I think it might even be better than the Portland mix shown here.

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Lots of those woodwind folk use ground up genadilla and CA to fix cracks and chips in blarinets and pickleohs, etc.

I had to cut out semicircles out of 7 1/2 in circular logs to replace a crappy glass room on this house with a same-size real log room. ( I mostly ended up doing this by myself - bringing in help when I had to. I found one person who said they had experience with log houses, but they never showed up, and I suspect that - had I brought in a crew of people who knew how to do it, they probably would have charged me the price of a house to swap out the glass room with a real room, so I think it ended up costing a small fraction (maybe about like a bargain used price on a YCB-826s) and being done much better, as most anything that we do ourselves when we are accustomed to doing things right and paying attention.) All I had was a reciprocating saw, a pencil, and an eyeball. As far as "good" is concerned, I did pretty good, but my cuts weren't perfect like they would have been at one of those log home factory places, and the place where I bought the logs (an amazing trip with my full size van and my big trailer with brakes up into and north of Amish country) didn't have a cutter to cut semicircles in this particular diameter log. When I made some little 1/8 to 3/16 inch errors trailing off of the semicircle, knowing that I wouldn't cut perfectly I saved all the sawdust, mixed some of it up in a bowl with some TiteBond, and puddied it into the imperfections before using that industrial-grade so-called chinking that comes out of a caulk tube. Even up close, it's hard to detect those sawdust and glue goop repairs, because - when it dried hard - it just happened to match the color of the oil stained wood.

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I was just talking about trailing off about that much when cutting nearly 4 in by nearly 8 in semicircles in round logs that were nearly 8 in in diameter. As you might imagine, there are machines that - when fitted with the correct cutters - can cut beautiful perfect semicircles in logs for the corner overlaps.

I would hire people to help me and - if any of them used the word "framing", I would let them go at the end of the day, because there's no such thing as "framing" with a log house. Everything has to fit like components of pieces of furniture have to fit. There's no BS inside of walls that can be crap and disguised by bending sheetrock over epic imperfections or anything like that. Everything has to fit, and - in particular, with log houses made of straight consistently round logs, like the so-called Lincoln Logs types of houses - there's just no room for BS. The square log houses - whereby a bunch of really wide thick chinking is blobbed in... - maybe (??) those houses don't have to be as precisely built, but I suspect that they do too.

Hey, I started this project not knowing a damn thing, and having to repair a bunch of floor joist water damage from that piece of crap glass room (deciding to go ahead and re-rim and re-joist the entire floor), but at least now I know something about building a log house. I don't pretend to know enough to be able to build one completely, but I bet there aren't very many people who know very much at all about these, and I can at least say that I know something, and I made some pretty challenging and I would rate as "slightly amazing" grafts onto the original house whereby I don't believe 99% of anyone would see where I did them. Of course, working in the 1000th of an inch 3D world - I believe - helped a lot.