Come learn and apply Japanese joinery techniques in this 3 day project based workshop. Students will have the choice of building a pair of elegant sawhorses or the frame for a trestle table that you can take home! Students will be immersed in three full days of layout techniques, cutting mortise and tenon joinery and hand plane finishing your work. We hope that you will leave this class not only with a hand made project, but the skills and understanding to begin designing your own furniture or small structures.
All students will receive a copy of the build plans for their choice of project. They may also be purchased below:
Topics Covered
Day One: Project orientation, tool and sharpening check, process and layout, begin cutting
Day Two: Cut joinery all day! Chisel and Saw coaching.
Day Three: Finish joinery work, hand planing and project assembly.
Prerequisites
This workshop requires some prior experience with Japanese tools, please come prepared with sharp chisels and functional hand planes. If you’ve taken one of our Bootcamps or a similar beginner Japanese woodworking class, you should do fine.
Required Tools
9mm Chisel
18mm or 24mm Chisel
240 Ryoba handsaw
54mm Kanna (or larger)
Japanese hammer
Japanese square in mm
0.3 Micron Pen and/or 0.5mm Mechanical pencil
Your personal sharpening supplies.
Registration
Begin your registration process at the Nihonsan Tools and Hardware website, linked below: