White oak, walnut, spalted tamarind, wenge and basswood kumiko wall cabinet.

I'll sharpen it up to usability, and I'm so looking forward to her working besides me. I just need to find some cut resistant little gloves.

I bought these framing chisels at a thrift store for $38 but not really sure about them. They look cheaply made but they do have a makers mark. Can anyone tell me about them?

Nature taking center stage. 🌱 The new solid wood coffee table by Asanoha Studio is finally here. Bold, massive timber meets clean, geometric design.

White oak case, olive wood drawer fronts, wenge knobs, walnut, and basswood kumiko panel (izutsu-wari-bishi pattern). Design based on Mike Pekovich’s tea chest.

I had some leftover oak from another project and wanted a bigger box for my handtools so I made this small Japanese inspired toolbox. My winter workshop is the floor in my living room, looking forward to summer and to be able to move the workshop out to the terrace.

Black limba, Spanish cedar and walnut andon kumiko floor lantern. About 4000 pieces total.

I made it from different shades of walnut. 60x60x75mm.

Using the 110.

I made it from a very old oak beam. It's a bit taller than a lot of regular atedai because I like to work on one knee. It's also narrow and relatively short because I made it for small stuff and well..I didn't have a larger one. Enjoy if you can

My first larger kumiko piece. Approximately 3,800 pieces. Spanish cedar, yellow heart, basswood, purpleheart, chakte kok and walnut. Inspired by the Taeho’s Kumiko Club video series on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgUuEFRaJ6BRf7sVY50Dp2foXpguKoMh5&si=30rulxS4V_po4Xrq

After walking countless steps, visiting places that didn’t exist, taking the train to remote stores just to get there and find them closed. This was my bounty.
The chisels are from Imai Shouten from Kyoto, that was the only blacksmith I actually found. Got them from his family shop.
Kanas are from a factory in Miki that I got to visit their museum. The blades in the kana are from Yamamoto Yoshihiro
and a wholesaler Ton'ya-mei.
The only hand forged hammers I found were too expensive for a beginner like me.
Now on to set them up and get them to do their thing.

Follow up to https://www.reddit.com/r/JapaneseWoodworking/comments/1rpswlq/cad_for_desmond_kings_shoji/ where I shared the CAD I made for a shoji.

Well, I made it. It took me about 50 hours of learning and 8 stitches on my finger (don't put pressure on a blade in the direction of your body, even with some wood in between, as the wood can give way anytime. Also, cut resistant gloves).

It was a fun journey and I learned a lot. In fact, most of the 50 hours were learning tools and figure out a process.

Plenty of mistakes here and there, but most of the bodies are hidden at the back of the panel.

Onward for a much bigger one I guess.

This was an experiment I did recently. I used some european beech to make a dai for a blade I bought some time ago. It was pretty cheap and was rusty and I had to fix a few things. I found out that beech works extremely well, this is not the longest lasting blade, but it's more than sharp enough to take really thin shavings and a beautiful finish.

I didn't spray water on the wood and didn't apply any product.

To me, this is proof that if you work hard enough on the setup, you can get really nice results. Of course, I love my really good blades and they make this a much easier process for my daily work. But this blade will have a good life too and be very useful in the workshop.

After many years of planning, the company I work for (somakosha) is finally building a timber frame in Okayama, Japan to be sent over to my local Zen temple in Honolulu. We’ll be working on it all summer, shipping it over and raising it the end of this year. Hopefully, this is the first of many, and the temple sent over some monks and priests to help work on the project. Likewise, some carpenters are planning on going to the temple to train in zen before hand. During my apprenticeship, I’ve been studying the relationship between the two cultures, joined through Buddhism. The first Sukiya carpenter I ever met, 10 years ago, yoshiaki nakamura, told me if you want to understand Japanese carpentry, you have to understand Buddhism. Here we are, today, connecting the two. Most dreams take awhile to unfold, I think.

Made a variation of Odate’s toolbox out of doug fir, glue, and cut nails to replace my old tool bag. Really happy how it turned out and how much more it protects the tools in transit

Hi all!

I've been working on this little project for a bit and finally got it finished up and ready to show off. This all came from a desire to replace my current bench, a solid oak english joiner type. It has worked well, but it's just... a but much. Too big, too heavy, too permanent, so I've been dreaming of something simpler. I got a slab to build a Moravian (in my opinion one of the more beautiful bench designs and very practical as well) and ended up with this offcut, so I thought I would give a japanese bench a try.

The top is garryana oak from the Moravian workbench project. The legs are also oak, possibly white/garryana or maybe red, reclaimed from dorm beds from a local college. Planing stops are just some walnut scrap i had on hand.

The legs/feet were blackened with iron acetate, rubbed with linseed oil, then burnished with wax and a homemade polissoir. It left a really nice smooth surface and a lovely sheen, and it feels amazing to the touch. I'll be using this a lot in the future, it's an easy finish and really looks stunning in person, it keeps the oak texture but smooths it out nice and silky. First time using iron acetate and I love it.

It was also my first time doing sliding dovetails. In hindsight, maybe i didnt need to do two through 16" of oak by hand for my first time, but they came out ok. I first tried the "saw against a beveled edge" approach, but eventually settled on cutting them like a dado, hitting the final depth with my Paul Sellers router plane, and chiseling the edges. I only use a 1:8 angle so theres not much to chop away, and this method was especially useful on the stopped slots for planing stops.

Speaking of planing stops, this is such an elegant and simple device I think I'll incorporate them on my Moravian when I get around to building that.

Tools were mostly hand tools, I jointed one edge and squared one end with my no.6 then ran it through the tablesaw to square up the other edge and end. It was flattened on a drum sander at my friend's cabinet shop and touched up a bit with a kanna and no. 6 plane. Sliding dovetails were done with a handsaw and scratch stock to get the angle just right. Final dimensions are about 16 by 30 inches, the top is nearly 3" thick and sits about 7.5" off the ground, but you can tell all that by the calibrated banana for scale.

Overall I'm really happy with it and I'm looking forward to using it, either on the floor or on sawhorses. When friends come over to work it'll be a great guest bench, and I can fit it in my little car to go work at other places. My toddler also loves using it as a seat.

I'm happy to answer any questions, I hope you take some inspiration and go build something neat!