Low Cherry Tansu – Case Assembly
With the hidden mitered dovetails complete, the areas I focused on next were the vertical partition that separates the door and drawer spaces, as well… Read More »Low Cherry Tansu – Case Assembly
Joinery
Low Cherry Tansu – Hidden Dovetail Joinery
When it came time to deciding what kind of joinery to use for the low cherry tansu my main concern was to keep the cabinet’s… Read More »Low Cherry Tansu – Hidden Dovetail Joinery
Cherry Tansu with Twisted Dovetails
Tansu are traditional Japanese cabinets. They come in a huge range of shapes, sizes and styles, and many evolved from a need for mobile storage.… Read More »Cherry Tansu with Twisted Dovetails
White Oak Shoji Cabinet – Finale
We made it to the finish folks, this is the last post for the White Oak Shoji Cabinet project. Thanks for following along. With the… Read More »White Oak Shoji Cabinet – Finale
White Oak Shoji Cabinet – Doors
With the dovetail joinery wrapped up and the case assembled, I started to work on the 8 doors. After milling the door frame stock to… Read More »White Oak Shoji Cabinet – Doors
White Oak Shoji Cabinet – Dovetail Joinery
Once the design for this furniture project was decided, I ordered up a massive pile of nara (Japanese white oak) and started making parts. The… Read More »White Oak Shoji Cabinet – Dovetail Joinery
White Oak Shoji Cabinet – Design
This past summer I had a custom furniture project for a client overseas. The commissioned project was a custom white oak cabinet with shoji screen… Read More »White Oak Shoji Cabinet – Design
Building a Timber Frame Engawa in Osakikamijima Island
One of the first projects that I worked on with Somakosha was installing flooring, doors and windows for a timber frame home that Somakosha built… Read More »Building a Timber Frame Engawa in Osakikamijima Island
Kumiko Cell Phone Speaker
Recently I finished up a collaborative project here in Tokyo with a design company called Consentable. The project is a purely acoustic speaker designed to… Read More »Kumiko Cell Phone Speaker
Kigumi Museum
木組み博物館 It’s been almost 6 months that I’ve been living in Japan, a fact that is hard to believe. I’ve still been spending almost half… Read More »Kigumi Museum
