Hello and welcome to my blog! In this post I will detail the process of creating a live edge shelf to be wall mounted. Those of you who have followed along with my blog may recall a very similar build recently. For this build I will be making the steel …
Hello and welcome to my blog! This post completes a series in which I’m building a pair of tall shoji in western red cedar. The previous post left off where I had been making arrangements to plane the kumiko for these doors. These doors, being exceptionally tall, have encouraged even more changes to …
Hello and welcome to my blog! In this post I will detail the process of restoring a single iron small kanna referred to as a ‘ko-ganna’. This plane is a vintage market find that had been used very little or not at all. Unfortunately some modifications and mishandling happened along the …
Hello and welcome to my blog! The process of tapping out, known as ura-dashi, is unique to Japanese tools and most commonly used on plane irons. This post will focus on the efforts I’ve made to chase after an effect of careful ura-dashi maintenance known as Ito-ura or thread edge. Japanese …
Hello and Welcome to my blog! In this series I will detail the process of building sliding bypass doors, known as shoji, of western red cedar. Having detailed the making of shoji in the recent past, this series will highlight the challenges I’ve faced as I progress through this particular build, in …
Hello and welcome to my blog! This post completes the tea house table and chair series in which I’m building a low chair and table of Honduran mahogany for an outdoor tea house and garden. In the previous post the tea house table neared completion and I left …
Hello and welcome to my blog! This post continues a series in which I’m building a low chair and table for installation in a tea house. The tea house table, a trestle table design which will reside outside, relies on wooden joinery without the use of glue. While I have …
Hello and welcome to my blog! This post continues a series in which I’m building a low table and chair to be installed in a tea house. Significant progress has been made on the prototype and final chairs, and now they have been put aside to complete the table top. In this …
Hello and welcome to my blog! This post continues a series in a which I’m building a low table and chair, of Honduran mahogany, to be installed in a tea house. In the previous post the chair spindles were roughed out and placed into their respective locations. This post …
Hello and welcome to my blog! This post continues a series in which I’m building a low chair and table of Honduran mahogany for a tea house. My progress in building the chairs has continued along, each stage requiring much consideration and often specialty tools. I’ve had little issue …