Building a Dovetail Log Cabin | Start to Finish | One Man 

Just saw you guys on exploring alternatives. New sub!! Love what you guys are doing

Hi Remi! I am so happy to see your video again. Its been a while. You are a true craftsman and I hope you will inspire future generations. I like that you give clear explanations. You are a good teacher. That is a beautiful cozy cabin. I say hi to Noemi❤ Hope you are all doing well. XOXO

Nice work, beautiful little cabin.

Wow!!! Simply gorgeous and your workmanship is impeccable. It's so nice to see that you're still producing your amazing videos. It was worth the wait. Can't wait for the next one.

Remi, that was a beautiful 55 minutes. Thank you!

Admiro muito seu trabalho. As técnicas de construção e as soluções são muito interessantes. Bahia , Brasil.

Beautiful work

Found you fri. Exploring alternatives. Just subscribed look forward to following your journey!

C'est beau mon friere. Thank you for sharing your build with us. You are very skilled. Look forward to seeing many more of your videos. Merci.

Beau travaille. Un jour je vais m'inspirer de ton travaille pour me construite une cabine comme ça. Félicitation.

Excellent video You are a true craftsman !

Excellent vidéo sur le sujet! Et presqu'en français... Hi H... Pour vrai, l'anglais utilisé est enfin à ma portée. Parler à la George Saint-Pierre a vraiment son charme aussi. Bref, le plus important est sans contredit le contenu apporté. Les détails sont suffisants pour quelqu'un qui souhaiterait se lancer. Ça vraiment le mérite de faire rêver. Grand merci. PS: Vous êtes d'où déjà? Je me souviens d'avoir été impressionné lors d'une épisode de Go van.

Beautiful work! Greetings from down under Australia….stay safe!

Wow! Gorgeous. Nice work brother.🤠

Beautiful work matey love the musical logs and your chisel work is beautifully accurate, I’ve followed about 20 builds now and your videography is superb just superb. May I offer a suggestion that may assist you in your chinking, I noticed you used a plastic bag, there is in the baking industry large piping bags made in canvas style material that you could pop in a metal nozzle that can be as wide as you make your gap eliminating the need for a dirty plastic bag whose only destination is land fill and a second pass as shown in your vlog, these bags would obviously need washing at the end of each use but I hope this will help you in your endeavours It truly is a beautiful piece of crafted home. This is my first vid of yours I’m now going to watch your playlists and any vids I can find of yours not put in any playlists. And yes I’ve hit the like and subscribed,

I have never seen this technique of putting a spacing board in between the logs of a log cabin. I thought that keeping the gap between the logs and filling it with the clay/straw chinking was very important to keep moisture from getting stuck between the logs if they were touching each other so the logs always can dry out completely. I thought this is why so many log cabins last for 200 years or more. So how does this wood on wood sandwich technique affect the longevity of the logs over not just decades but centuries? Also, does your kit explain how to cut the dovetail joints freely (without using a jig) so that a more rustic cabin without uniform logs can be built? I want to learn how to build a more rustic version of your beautiful little cabin. Thank you for sharing this adventure. The sweet potato looked very delicious! : - D

Super intéressant. Quel beau travail.

Beautiful!

Wow! That is amazing craftsmanship and beautiful woodworking

Impressionnant, y'a du travail et l'amour là-dedans. Bravo!

Recently came across your channel. Loved the video! I appreciated all of the little details (especially with it being in English…although I would likely still have watched the whole video if it were in French👍). I admire the amount of skill that goes into building such a quaint little cabin. I hope to build something like this one day. Cheers from Idaho!

Spectacular!

Bonjour Noémie et Rémi, je viens de voir votre vidéo à Exploring Alternatives! Quel beau projet!

Hihi amazing!!

Do you have a revised link for the build kit? The Etsy link is kaput.

We have been looking for log cabin builds with dovetails, not many good ones on youtube, this one was excellent, nice channel just subbed. Did you dry the logs in the solar kiln or how long did you wait to use them to build?

Also good to know: Shutters Energy-saver- protect the Windows with traditional shutters. For remembrance: I am a facility manager and 30 years in building houses homes and office buildings also expert in “Clima-stuff” concerning healthy building. Everyone how was on vacation or lived a time in Scandinavian countries, in Germany Austria Switzerland or other country’s know, how many house owners in colder areas protect there windows from cold, from storm, from wild animals or thefts. We call them “Fensterläden” they are out of wood and “work like a second window from the outside”. Windows like many use in the US or CA are not allowed in Germany because they have not good “isolation capability’s” in Germany it is law to “safe heating energy” so we must use windows with 3 glasses so called “thermopen window panes” between the glasses is a special gas with power to isolate. All 3 glasses are perfect tied- so no gas can escape. But there are windows that have 5! glasses! Bad windows cant keep the heat in the room and the cold presses into the room. So you can lose hour by hour expensive heat and the goal must be “to optimize the window” To gear up such window protection cost not much but the cost will be returned very fast. Also it looks traditional with such a shutter in different colors. As lesser wood must be prepared for the heating, for the oven, as better it is. Some don’t think about the work of preparation of the wood. I love houses with the best isolation that is possible. Even with high energy saving windows- the cold presses 100 centimeter into a room! And when the window is not perfect put into the walls, then much more loosing of heat and cold bridged and later fungi will fellow in that part of the window. The humidity in the houses looks for the coldest places- that’s often “cold bridges” and then the dew point comes and fungi grows. Fungi are a danger for the health. Can produce cancer, allergy’s and lunge problems. Shutters are cheap but in cold days (special in the nights) they work as a second isolationpower if they are build correct. 2 or 3 centimeter strong wood, build like a real door (google in German Fensterläden and you will find inspiration) If they are build right they build a “air-line” between the window outside and the cold. It keeps the cold away from the window and the heat in the house. It looks cool-traditional made, you can close them from the outside and the inside. Here videos for self-made wood protection in German but I think that there must be many in English. On YT: “GAH-Alberts: Fensterladen selbst bauen” or “Fensterladen mit elektrischem Antrieb“ there you get an idea. PS: A mudroom is also a cool solution for saving heat in the wintertime. In Germany we call them "Windfang" its a smale room that protects the inside of the house from the wind cold and rain.

Hello to you both I have a question about the water filter on your kit counter. Looks like one to me. Did you diy it and if so could you explain on another you tube. Thank you

Hi Remi, loved the video. Amazing craftsmanship! I was hoping to get the plans and course but the link doesn't seem to work. If there is another way please let me know. Cheers

What are the dimensions for this cabin? Beautiful work.

Great channel. Bonne Chance!👍👍🍀🙏

Bonjour Rémi, le cours est il encore disponible?

Hello, I am planning to build a cabin very similar to this. I tried the link mentioned in the video, in the description, and nothing was available on Etsy. Is there any way to connect with you possibly get the plans / ask some questions? I really appreciated your video.

Great video and inspiring work. I am trying to find your plans/online tutorial, but the link seems to be broken.

What are you using for insulation between gap

You guys seriously need better microphones. It would improve your channel sooo much which would for sure bring in more trafic to your channel because the content is great!

Are your Esty plans/video detailed enough for someone to fabricate the jigs and cut and stack the logs?

I was wondering why you built the cabin on cement blocks instead of the traditional way.

Love and greetings from Hamburg in Germany! I am a facility manager with carpenter backround 30 years in the buis. Of course high end building appartements blocks or malls- office buildings. My grandmother had build a traditionell log house with stone foundament in the year 1925 She hide herself in the holocaust in that cabin with 4 rooms. Cabins are my hobby... Yours is wonderfull. The greenhouse perfect the foundament very good. I like on floor cabins and I dont like high ceilings because the heat rises to the top its energy lost. (Northmen on YT and his "the brith of a wooden house" one of the best He has alot traditinall technics for learning by watching Insolation with wood dust never using fake insolation like spray foam (cancer and fungi) or rockwool- real wool is healthy. I like more the traditionall space system with all rooms on one floor because "of the age and times of possible handycups" or so. There are more then one solutions of stepp support in times of multiscleoses- kickbacks (a friend of my mother had it for a long time) 1: Build strong handrail stairs! And a safty first system with catching rope like the tree climber or roof builders use them for the case of falling. It catches you in a second and you can not fall deep! MS is tricky and weak muscels can let one fall from the stepps.. 2: stair lifts are cheap and used on the market. Its the second help to reach the first floor. 3: Room elefator like the lifton is expansive. My handycup oncle bought one to came from the 1 floor into the second. You can buy them used! In the end it can be that you need some more space and build 2 rooms for you and your wife. Long term the best way. New foundament and logs for a sleepingroom and a creative room! The girl needs also more space in the future! It canbe that you need more protein. 3 times a day. Its good for muscels nervs and bones, if you can get Vitamin d take it speak with the doctor. I take 5800 units a day. Its good for the bones system... Dont give up! Frank

Do you offer courses in dovetail log building and if you do where can I find the class schedule? Where in Quebec are you located?

Tell me, please, what were the seams between the logs covered with?

The video and plans are not available on Etsy. Are they still available anywhere else?

Hi, In episode 73 you where drinking Mate. Are you from argentina or uruguay?

Talk less, work more!

Can you please talk less and show more work!

Too much of you talking and not enough of us seeing what you are doing, won't be watching anymore of your video's.

This is amazing, dont let the negative people get you down. Ive never understood people complaining about something they got for free. Quick question, what was the product you sqeezed in for chinking?

Fait les en francais le video lol sous titre en anglais lol mais cest ca coche haha