Centuries before the invention of screws and fasteners japanese carpentries created their own beautiful and effective woodworking joints known as joinery closely related to japanese architecture.
Japanese carpentry furniture. Makoto has designed and built homes in japan in california on the east coast and in washington along with stunning singular pieces of furniture. Some hammers are used for chisel work some for positioning hand plane blades some for hammering and pulling nails and others for tapping out laminated hardened steel from base of plane blades and chisels. Amex open miya shoji from i d. It is the work of tightly slotting together pieces of timber or lumber to hold together and produce more complicated items.
This rolling tansu chest by aaron levine is based on a traditional japanese furniture form but when he designed it he was serving an apprenticeship and was at the very creating a cabinet february 4 2015. 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. The genius of japanese carpentry tells the story of the 1200 year old yakushiji monastery in nara and the dedicated modern day craftsmen who are working to restore what has been lost to the depredations of time fire and warfare. George katsutoshi nakashima was a japanese american woodworker architect and furniture maker he built a studio in pennsylvania from which he built many furniture designs using the incredible geometry and precision of ancient japanese carpentry techniques.
Japanese hammer genno or gennoh 玄能. The days of a made to order furniture maker. There are several types of carpentry hammers. One episode that s caught our eye over the years is called sashimono woodwork.
You ll use familiar tools like the router to make the end panels and a dowel jig to make the some of the joinery.