Crafting Wood with Japanese Techniques

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When it's raining, cad work can be a good way to flesh out design ideas and experiment with wood for free. These are concept shots for a potential cabin project built in SketchUp. I often tell people that I build things 3 times: in my head, in cad, a

We got nuki ready to go, these are very tightly pegged into slots diligently cut by our students to provide racking strength to the timber frame. Did I say already that it’s satisfying to make dimensional lumber from your own trees. #japaneseca

One of 3 tables for a restaurant. They are being shipped flat so I did the test fitting and took some pics before all the final planing. This was before all the planing posts of late. Real hinoki tops with port orford legs and stretcher. #portorford

Chop wood, carry water.