Building the Hewn Timber Cabins: Full-dovetailed cornering

Full-Dovetailed Cornering

Figure 86. Full-dovetailed cornering

At the time these cabins were being built, hewn-timber cabins were being built all across the continent with corners that were saddle-notched or half-dovetailed because the builders lacked the skill to do full-dovetailing. The full-dovetailing on the Francis Marion University cabins shows that the African Americans who built them possessed unusual woodcraft skills. (Photo 1997)

Full-dovetailed cornering shown in picture