Tea Garden Bench

Hello and welcome to my blog!  This post begins a series in which I will build a sitting bench of Honduran mahogany.  The Tea Garden Bench will reside along a winding pathway of the tea house garden and will provide a place to sit briefly and take in the surroundings. My goal in …

Walnut Tsuri-Dana

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 …

Ko-Ganna Restoration

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 …

Tea House Table and Chair

Hello and welcome to my blog!  In this series I will detail the process of building a table and chair for use in an outdoor tea house.  The seating arrangement will be partially exposed to the elements and so I’ve chosen to use Honduran mahogany, a wood that can survive the …