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… 続きを読む »White Oak Shoji Cabinet – Design
Joinery
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… 続きを読む »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… 続きを読む »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… 続きを読む »Kigumi Museum
The Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
When you meet other woodworkers who have traveled to Japan and ask them for recommendations on places to see, chances are they will tell you… 続きを読む »The Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
A Visit with Akira Watanabe Edo Sashimono Craftsman
This past week I had the pleasure of visiting the workshop of Akira Watanabe, an Edo Sashimono craftsman. I have come across Watanabe-san’s work online… 続きを読む »A Visit with Akira Watanabe Edo Sashimono Craftsman
kumiko table saw sled
Kumiko Table Saw sled – Making Shojis part 2 I left off the last post on making shoji screens at the point where I… 続きを読む »kumiko table saw sled
Making Shoji Screens
Making Shoji Screens The past few weeks I’ve been taking a break from my folding screen project to make some shoji screens for a couple… 続きを読む »Making Shoji Screens
Three-way Miter Class
Three-way Miter Class Hey folks, please join me on Saturday June 30th for a three-way miter class that I’ll be teaching at Mokuchi in Brooklyn,… 続きを読む »Three-way Miter Class
3 Legged stool Build
3 Legged Stool Build I’m long overdue for an update here, so I thought I’d share some photos from a recent spec piece I… 続きを読む »3 Legged stool Build
