Japanese Woodworking Show

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I went to this show mentioned in this thread and here are the photos I took. This will be a multi-post thread due to the pic per post limit.

Axes

Hand tools

Spear plane...

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Cast handles

Tea house corner mortice

Temple joints

Temple templates

Temple roof

Roof plan

 

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Tea House panel

Temple roof joints

Joint

Dovetails

 

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This is huge ~400mm square post and 2m tall

Large Kumiko panel

 

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[Morag Jones]

Thanks so much Edward for posting these! Deffo going to try to get there, looks fascinating.

 

[Ed Weber]

Yes, thank you, I really enjoyed seeing your photos

 

[BillK]

Great pics those!

 

[velar]

I went to this as well, and a couple of the talks/workshops. Made my own chopsticks (surprisingly fulfilling) and realised that I *can* in fact use a plane, my problem all these years probably having been that I haven't ever set one up properly and/or sharpened it correctly. Or haven't spent hundreds on a nice Japanese one. On reflection that must be it. And the smell of Hinoki cypress shavings is gorgeous...

But some things are likely always to be beyond my reach. I mean, this joint. I would love to, one day, but also WHY