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Sashimono woodworking video - Recommended!

Postby liam » 03 Dec 2014, 12:45

I chanced across this video on youtube and thought it worth sharing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxP5Cg51qNs
I hope that you agree.

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Re: Sashimono woodworking video - Recommended!

Postby TrimTheKing » 03 Dec 2014, 13:29

Looks interesting, will have a proper watch later when I'm less busy.

Thanks for sharing.

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Postby Wizard9999 » 03 Dec 2014, 14:02

Just managed to watch the first 10 minutes, will definitely find the time to watch the rest. Thanks for posting.

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Postby Rod » 03 Dec 2014, 14:39

Watched it whilst the Chancellor was gabbling on as the sound seemed to disappear half way through?
Fantastic workmanship, lovely pieces of wood and amazing joints!

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Postby StevieB » 03 Dec 2014, 14:49

Brilliant - thanks for posting, really brightened up my lunch-hour at work!

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Postby Woodbloke » 03 Dec 2014, 19:31

Excellent stuff. I especially like the way that the leg could appear to be thinner by simply planing away the corners and rounding it a bit - Rob
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Postby StevieB » 03 Dec 2014, 21:23

Yes, that was impressive. Not sure about planing the top shelf though - you would need better eyesight than mine to tell a hollow the thickness of a postcard :)
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Postby Andyp » 04 Dec 2014, 09:00

Yep, that 3 way joint with the 2 tenons in the upright bisecting the angled mitred M&T was impressive.
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Re: Sashimono woodworking video - Recommended!

Postby Woodbloke » 04 Dec 2014, 11:43

The Japanese joinery techniques, like much of their other culture, was probably imported from the Chinese. Mike Huntley advised me to buy a small but classic re-print of a tome called ''Chinese Domestic Furniture'' by Gustav Ecke, which contains loads of b/w images of Chinese furniture (all in native rosewood) and three or four pages of line drawings of joints. No glue was ever used because of the humidity in that part of the word so all the furniture relied on mechanical means (pegs, wedges, dovetails etc) to hold it together.
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Postby Mike G » 04 Dec 2014, 13:16

Wonderful, wonderful skills, and some great timber to be working with. I have never liked their finishes, though, and there is very little Japanese furniture design which appeals to me either. Their timber house construction, another subject altogether, is a delight.
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Postby StevieB » 05 Dec 2014, 14:56

As an aside, does the method of joinery used is this video result from any particular properties of the locally available timber? I have to admit to not knowing many of the species mentioned and wonder if the same kind of joinery could be constructed in ash, oak or cherry that are more commonly available here for example. I cannot imagine doing the double tenon 3 corner joint in oak for example (not that I could do it even in these Japanese timbers!). Where the video quoted lightness as a defining characteristic I immediately thought of balsa wood, and cedar when softness and moth repellant properties were mentioned. Are these just Japanese names for timber we would recognise in the West, or species only locally available to the Japanese craftsmen?

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Postby Woodbloke » 05 Dec 2014, 15:14

StevieB wrote:As an aside, does the method of joinery used is this video result from any particular properties of the locally available timber? I have to admit to not knowing many of the species mentioned and wonder if the same kind of joinery could be constructed in ash, oak or cherry that are more commonly available here for example. I cannot imagine doing the double tenon 3 corner joint in oak for example (not that I could do it even in these Japanese timbers!). Where the video quoted lightness as a defining characteristic I immediately thought of balsa wood, and cedar when softness and moth repellant properties were mentioned. Are these just Japanese names for timber we would recognise in the West, or species only locally available to the Japanese craftsmen?

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I think the Japanese joinery could be constructed in any of our Western timbers, but in the main the timbers used are those found in that part of the world. F'rinstnce, Zelkova or Japanese Elm is very similar to our own elm. I suppose for Paulowina we would use Cedar of Lebanon as they seem to have much the same sort of properties - Rob
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Postby Rod » 05 Dec 2014, 17:37

I think their oak is finer grained and easier to work?
And they book Rob recommended is available as a reprint for about £12?

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Postby Mike G » 05 Dec 2014, 21:54

Rod wrote:I think their oak is finer grained and easier to work?
And they book Rob recommended is available as a reprint for about £12?

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Postby Rod » 05 Dec 2014, 22:48

Apart from I was using my phone I wasn't 100% sure - perhaps I should have said £12 odd?
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Postby Woodbloke » 06 Dec 2014, 17:19

Rod wrote:I think their oak is finer grained and easier to work?
And they book Rob recommended is available as a reprint for about £12?

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Not sure about their oak, from what I've seen of Jap kana dais it appears to be very similar to our own, sounds about right for the book though - Rob
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