Inspiration – Shirakawa-go and Takayama
Last week was Golden Week here in Japan, a string of holidays that fall within the same week every year, and many people take that… 続きを読む »Inspiration – Shirakawa-go and Takayama
Last week was Golden Week here in Japan, a string of holidays that fall within the same week every year, and many people take that… 続きを読む »Inspiration – Shirakawa-go and Takayama
One of the more unique tools used in Japanese carpentry is the chouna (adze). As carpentry tools go, adzes are certainly not unique to Japan… 続きを読む »Chouna Shiage – Adze Finishing
This past week my family came for a visit to Japan, and we spent a few days in Kyoto. One of the places we stopped… 続きを読む »Inspiration – Tofuku-ji
Over the past few days I’ve started work on the “heavy duty” shelves that I discussed last week. I started with the posts, milling them… 続きを読む »Heavy Duty Shelves – Kata-sage-ari joints
It’s been a while since I’ve had a shop of my own. While I was in college I lived out of my families cabin in… 続きを読む »A Unique Approach to Cutting Bevels
On to the last bit of work for the mirror shelf build. Again my apologies that the photos in this build are somewhat lacking. Lately… 続きを読む »Mirror Shelf – Build 2
For several years now I’ve been making woodturnings, carved bowls, trays and plates. Making items like these that will potentially see real use as tableware;… 続きを読む »Liquid Glass Wood Finish
This week I thought I’d take it easy here on the blog and simply share some images from a few places that I’ve visited here… 続きを読む »Inspiration
In last weeks post I talked about the process of using the scribing tool to mark the shape of an uneven surface followed by cutting/trimming.… 続きを読む »Scribed Joinery – the Process 2
In this post I thought I’d cover more of the process of scribing. The process I will show here is aimed at joining two pieces… 続きを読む »Scribed Joinery – the Process