Japanese woodworking and joinery is the wisdom of how to coax freewheeling solid wood and make things as intended.
Japanese woodworking joinery. If you ve built furniture or casework you ll enjoy the easy introduction to japanese woodworking techniques in this combination of western and japanese joinery. It is the work of tightly slotting together pieces of timber or lumber to hold together and produce more complicated items. Twitter account thejoinery jp is dedicated to popularizing traditional japanese joinery techniques. It was interesting to skim the first book and see how woodworking in japan differs from the west.
Therefore its target is only solid wood. This is actually a compilation of two japanese books that were translated to english one on woodworking in general tools and techniques and one on joinery. It s a strong interesting joint that andrew hunter cuts by hand. For this month a lot of people who loved my previous videos have asked me to show them the skills of the great master wood joinery.
It doesn t get too in depth but i picked up some useful tips. There s so much info here. To show the most amazing view of traditional japanese wood joints. Used to construct everything from temples to cabinetry japanese wood joinery involves the elaborate process of slotting pieces of lumber or timber together to produce interlocking japanese wood joints.
You ll use familiar tools like the router to make the end panels and a dowel jig to make the some of the joinery. What is japanese joinery. Long before screws and metal fastenings became de rigueur japanese builders had mastered the art of wood joinery. Is this technique still being used.
Get started with japanese joinery the kanawa tsugi translated as a half blind tenoned dadoed and rabbeted scarf joint is used to splice two pieces of wood together end to end.