To show the most amazing view of traditional japanese wood joints.
Traditional japanese woodworking bench. My bench will basically be pretty close in design to the frank klausz bench that has been well documented in both the workbench book by scott landis as well as in fine woodworking issue 53 july august 1985. Sketching i finally decided on a pretty traditional design. This type of bench is exactly the type of bench i had in woodworking class träslöjd when i grew up in sweden. Furniture maker dennis young.
For more than 30 years japan woodworker has imported professional quality woodworking tools fine cutlery and gardening tools from japan. The bench consists of two trestle style sawhorses that are topped with one massive slab of a top. It is the archetype of a woodworking bench here. Depending on how.
Mostly due to the location of the tail vise it aways seems to be in the way of where i want to saw. This weekend at the northeastern woodworkers association s annual show stanley was demonstrating his new sharp skate honing guide teaching people to sharpen edge tools and helping people learn to wield a handplane on his japanese bench. In this project i design and build a bench incorporating japanese style architecture as well as in lay some bow ties butterflies along a crack i carve as a decorative feature. Build a real workbench for 30 duration.
We decided to make a video about. The main difference between my bench and franks is the front vise. Japanese style bookshelf with traditional hand cut joinery. 10 common japanese woodworking joints that will blow your mind japanese cabinetmaking.
The removable vise is somewhat taller than you usually find a woodworker using but it suits my own height well. For the last year or so i ve been slowly sliding more into the japanese side of woodworking. Beginning japanese woodworking basic tool kit. So i started researching what work surface japanese woodworkers use.
This is my traditional japanese woodworking bench that i have used for many years. It was the type of bench sjöbergs used to make before they started putting face vises and end vises on their benches probably to cut down production cost and maybe to try to cater to wood workers using more power tools than hand tools.