Chair no. 1 – Design
I’ve been doing woodworking now more or less since 2003 when I went to lutherie school. Since that time I’ve had the opportunity to work… 続きを読む »Chair no. 1 – Design
I’ve been doing woodworking now more or less since 2003 when I went to lutherie school. Since that time I’ve had the opportunity to work… 続きを読む »Chair no. 1 – Design
At long last here is the final post on the Low Cherry Tansu. After completing the door in the last post, the remaining items to… 続きを読む »Low Cherry Tansu – Finale
The final step before assembling the koushi-do was handplaning. This is one stage of work that I really love. There’s nothing quite as satisfying as… 続きを読む »Making Koushi-do – Planing and Assembly
In the previous post after completing the joinery layout, I proceeded with cutting the koushi and door rails to length. I also cut the shoulders… 続きを読む »Making Koushi-do 格子戸 – Part 2
This month I’ve been working down in Okayama with Somakosha again, this time making 格子戸 koushi-do, or lattice doors. A friend of mine bought an… 続きを読む »Making Koushido 格子戸- Japanese Lattice Doors
With the main cabinet more or less complete I moved on to making the single ken-don 倹飩 door for this cabinet. In a previous post… 続きを読む »Low Cherry Tansu – Ken-don 倹飩 Door
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… 続きを読む »Low Cherry Tansu – Case Assembly
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… 続きを読む »Low Cherry Tansu – Hidden Dovetail Joinery
In the last post about tabi-dansu, I mentioned that I was in the process of designing and building a small cabinet inspired by tabi-dansu. In… 続きを読む »Low Cherry Tansu – Design
The first year that my wife and I moved to Japan, we started a habit of going to the Tokyo city flea market every weekend.… 続きを読む »Tabi-dansu 旅箪笥