Hello and welcome to my blog! Â This post begins a short series in which I’m building a live edge tsuridana for a modern Japanese style home. Â A tsuridana is a single shelf or set of shelves found in specific areas of the traditional Japanese home. Â These shelves are normally supported …
Hello and welcome to my blog, in today’s post I will detail the making of shoji screens to cover a bathroom window. Shoji are sliding doors, windows and room dividers of traditional Japanese architecture, they consist of a wooden frame and lattice work backed by washi paper. Shoji, when backlit, allow …
Hello and welcome to my blog!  In this post I will be describing the process of creating a replacement handle for a Japanese chisel, by hand, and without a lathe.  I have a set of Kikuhiromaru chisels, new old stock, that I have been using for just about two years now. …
Hello and welcome!  In this series I am building a walnut and gaboon ebony desktop humidor.  This post will focus on the interior trays, made from spanish cedar and built in the method of kumiko. Kumiko is the lattice work in shoji and it can range from very simply designed to …