Maruta Bench – Build 2
The last post left off with turning the short seat stretchers round on the lathe. I had pre-cut a 60mm Ø shoulder prior to turning,… 続きを読む »Maruta Bench – Build 2
The last post left off with turning the short seat stretchers round on the lathe. I had pre-cut a 60mm Ø shoulder prior to turning,… 続きを読む »Maruta Bench – Build 2
A few months back I designed a bench as part of my goal for this year to produce a new furniture design every week. The… 続きを読む »Maruta Bench – Build 1
Last weekend my wife and I packed up a bunch of furniture and woodturnings and headed to Nagano for a craft fair. It was the… 続きを読む »Stepping Out of the Shop
I first designed and built this stool 5 years ago in Brooklyn, and wrote about the build in one of my early blog posts here… 続きを読む »3 Leg Stool Build – Version 2
Recently a friend and I had a bit of a conversation about the toshi-nuki shelves that I recently built. He was concerned about racking, since… 続きを読む »Thoughts on Good Furniture Design
Well here we are in the final stages of this build. At this point the only tasks remaining were to cut wedges, mill and cut… 続きを読む »Toshi-Nuki Shelves – Build 3
Following from the last post on building the Toshi-Nuki Shelves, which was mainly about cutting mortises, we continue on with… more mortises. Or in this… 続きを読む »Toshi-Nuki Shelves – Build 2
It’s time to start building some knockdown shelving. A few weeks have passes since the last post where I talked about different joinery options for… 続きを読む »Toshi-nuki Shelves – Build 1
A couple weeks ago I finished up a set of shoji screens for a customer in the US. I had planned to use sugi (Japanese… 続きを読む »Making Shoji – Western Red Cedar
One of the furniture designs that I’ve been working on recently is this shelving system that I designed to be easily assembled/disassembled via traditional joinery.… 続きを読む »Collapsible Shelving Joinery Considerations