In this video, Thanh hand planes and shapes wood to construct the first wooden wall of an off-grid log cabin in a remote rural area of northern Vietnam. The journey of building this cabin in the woods ...

Join Thanh on his journey as he builds a log cabin by hand in the woods of northern Vietnam. This video showcases the process of shaping wood, creating beams and floors, and sawing wood into boards.

From October into November, my wife and I—and our two dogs—drove from New Mexico to Vermont to turn our unfinished 12-by-12 log cabin into a little off-grid home. We transformed it from the empty ...