I would like to do something a little different on the interior of my cabin. I like the log cabin look with hand hewn logs and chinking. I found some rustic channel siding online. Any ideas on how to make the wood look aged and add a hand hewn look? I can add chinking in the channel. I would like to end up with a look like this picture.
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:) Buy a good broad axe or adz and resign yourself to having forearms like Popeye before you are finished giving your beams that hand hewn look. Aged look takes time but, no additional labor. A cabinet maker might know some tricks to speed that process up for you.
Traditionally the vertical scores were done with a felling axe into the log to set depth and a broadaxe was used to remove the rounded outside of the log and form a flat face. The wood in the photo appears to be boards that have simply been struck with a felling axe. The color variations you are seeing is bluestain, also called sapstain, in pine. This is a fungi that feeds on the sugars in sapwood when the temperatures are warm and the moisture content of the wood is high... it's real easy to make pine turn blue this time of year. The log just to the right of the moose plate is very typical, notice the heartwood is unaffected, it only grows in the sapwood, where the sugars are.
Getting late but these pics might be of some help;
This is sapstain in poplar
(https://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x109/windyhilll/MVC-019F.jpg)
(https://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x109/windyhilll/chink5.jpg)
(https://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x109/windyhilll/hewingcollar.jpg)
(https://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x109/windyhilll/log1.jpg)
(https://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x109/windyhilll/log2.jpg)
(https://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x109/windyhilll/log3.jpg)
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This was done with a power planer. I removed the front shoe and ground the knives with curved edges similar to an adze. I swung it in a chopping arc and made a machined hew... fair. The planer did not survive.
(https://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x109/windyhilll/MVC-009F.jpg)