And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tight logs too!
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DeleteAmazing to watch the show "Barnwood Builders" and see old buildings from a time when all those joints were cut with hand tools.
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ReplyDeleteNice to have a source of uniformly grown logs, chinking is difficult when using varying diameters and tapers.
ReplyDeleteSee this joinery a lot in Finland log cabins.
ReplyDeleteNote the dovetails are double bevel- dovetailed in both axis.
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