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Wedged Mortise and Tenon Joinery Last week I covered cutting the box joints and mortises for this keyaki tabi-dansu, and this week we’re continuing on with the wedged mortise and tenon joints. Since I laid out and cut all the mortises by hand, the location and size of each became somewhat unique. So I decided… Read More »Keyaki Tabi-dansu 2

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Earlier this year I introduced an upcoming tansu commission through a couple of posts about the overall scope, and joinery considerations for the series of cabinets. It’s been many month since those posts, but the past few weeks I’ve finally started work on the project. To quickly recap, I’ll be building three cabinets, one long… Read More »Keyaki Tabi-dansu

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More than a month has passed since my last post, and a lot has been happening around here in Tomobe. It’s been difficult to find time to sit down and update the blog, but I’m going to try and get better about that from here on out. So much I want to share. One update… Read More »PettyWork Saw

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In the last post I mentioned how the shared shop I was using in Tokyo unexpectedly closed for construction forcing me to dive into setting up my own shop and search for machines much sooner than expected. I was incredibly lucky that the timing of the closing of the Tokyo shop cooincided with us buying… Read More »Tomobe – Setting Up Shop 2

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When we first discovered our house here in Tomobe, one of the big attractions for me was an existing building on the property that looked perfect for a woodshop. I’ve been dreaming of having my own shop space for way too long, and the fact that that dream has now become a reality still hasn’t… Read More »Tomobe – Setting Up Shop 1

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Trying to catch up with updates here on the house work in Tomobe, and I’m about a week behind at the moment. I’m probably not going to keep up weekly updates indefinitely but these first few weeks at the house have been full of interesting work and discoveries, which I though might be interesting to… Read More »Tomobe House – Week 2

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First things first, I want to say thanks to everyone for the well wishes and comments in the last post where I introduced our new home/project. It’s been a little over a week since we more or less moved into our new house in Tomobe, and a lot has happened. There’s no shortage of work… Read More »Tomobe House – Week 1

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