What is the difference between a handcrafted and a machined log home?
In a handcrafted building, the log is still a natural log, the only alteration being that it has undergone removal of the outer bark and part or all of the “cambium” or inner bark layer. The uniqueness and character that nature intended, is still visible in the finished home. Logs that have been altered from their natural profile, either by hand, machine, or a combination of both, but still “joined” in a process that involves the custom hand-fitting of these components is also still considered to be handcrafted. A good example of this would be a “hewn” log wall profile, where the logs have been flattened on their sides, and then either scribed or chinked together involving the use of scribed interlocking notches, or perhaps incorporated into a pièce en pièce system of logwork. The machined or milled log home is a mechanically profiled log, and is designed to beidentical in dimension to every other piece in the building. It is no longer a “log”, but a factory run piece of lumber that”us
