How To Make Hand Hewn Siding

The 1 12 hand hewn chink groove siding is our best seller and adds rustic charm and appalachian style to any home or structure.

How to make hand hewn siding.

Wire brushing is more effective on soft woods such as pine. Pioneer log siding is a painstaking procedure. Hand hewn slab siding is siding that is cut from 2 or 4 sided hand hewn beams which have been preserved from other sources. Each piece of pioneer log siding is hand hewed sculpted distressed sanded and age stained to appear over 100 years old.

You bring a piece of the past into your home when you use reclaimed wood shaped and designed by the hands of the pioneers who made them. Our handcrafted pioneer log siding simulates rustic square logs. 1x12 hand hewn chink groove siding ln ft quantity. Once a finished is applied and k.

This will dig out the softer wood between the grain and give the surface more texture which really helps make new wood look old. Lengths only longer on special request. No up keep or restaining for decades to maintain a true pioneer look. Place a wire brush at an angle on the board and run it with the grain.

Please specify the number of linear feet you would like and click add to quote. All pioneer log siding comes age stained ready to install. We hand hew and distress boards dramatically to transform any home or business into an historic look of the past. Siding comes in 16 ft.

We scour old factories bridges shops and barns for this incredible material. A tutorial on how to make a diy beam look as though it were hand hewn by simulating the techniques used to make them 150 yrs ago back to the wood by audionau. I ve seen this detail in. Hand hewn distressed axed and sculpted from new kiln dried doug fir lumber age stained to appear over 150 years old.

The look of hand hewn with power tools a curved power planer or planer knife can approximate the look but for the real thing you need the hand tool an adze.