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Detailed and heavily illustrated, Rustic Construction offers clear and precise instruction for making attractive "lodge look" furniture, lamps, shelves, road signs, fences, bird houses — even bridges! — all using slab lumber, logs, and other materials found in nature.
Construction details and plans are presented in simple, clear prose with ample black and white line drawings. All of the various types of work featured have been made by W. Ben Hunt or by craftsmen with whom he was acquainted.
Originally published nearly sixty years ago, Rustic Construction has never been out of print and continues to be a vital resource for artisans and craftsmen who enjoy building with materials from field and forest. Updated and enlarged, this edition of Rustic Construction includes more current references for books, publications, shop plans, and equipment.
"This book is a must for anyone who is interested in building with natural materials. It's a great resource — whether
you're a beginning builder or a master craftsman!"
— Lang Hornthal, owner/craftsman, Appalachian Designs
"Hunt influenced thousands – no, tens of thousands of people. When you have a person with that much influence
on so many people, he’s important."
— Alan Pape, log cabin builder/historian
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Ben Hunt is perhaps best known for his many books on Native American crafts, woodworking, cabin construction, and woodcarving. He also contributed many articles (under the pen names Lone Eagle and Whittlin’ Jim) to Boys’ Life Magazine, the official publication of the Boy Scouts of America, with which he was deeply involved both locally and nationally.
In 1924, Ben Hunt and two of his relatives built a cabin of tamarack logs using hand tools familiar to hardy pioneers on the American frontier. The cabin still stands today in Hales Corners, Wisconsin, along with a dugout canoe that Ben carved in 1945 from a basswood tree using an axe, adze, and Indian crooked knife. These historical constructions, along with Ben Hunt's many writings and drawings, continue to inspire and encourage building and craftwork using rustic methods, tools, and natural materials.