Showing posts with label dovetail joint Japanese traditional wooden furniture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dovetail joint Japanese traditional wooden furniture. Show all posts

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Scrap timber project - An idea from Hakone yosegi-saiku

As an experiment of the scrap project, I made a multi-purpose timber stall with timber scrap with Daryl O'Brien. There are the variety of species, colour's timber as garbages at a joinery shop.

When I saw the mountain of timber scrap, I remembered the two techniques of Japanese traditional wooden work. "Hakone yosegi-zaiku" with  dovetail joint technique.

As soon as the first work done, I have been using for a couple of months as a Japanese tea table with my daughter, side table for TV remote controller, a stall for adult etc. It's small stall, but pretty heavy and very stable for any purpose of use. The first idea was "no more throw to Bin!", so we can use as a shelf for kid's, table, side table, stall further more....

From now, we will start next challenge....

Monday, June 21, 2010

Traditional wooden craft - Dovetail joint technique

Currently my shop is in the shop "Latrobe artspace"(Framing shop). the shop owner is just completed the Japanese traditional wooden craft which use the one of traditional technique called "蟻組継ぎ Dovetail joint technique". the Dovetail joint is no nails but very strong structure. So There is a very popular in Japanese traditional furniture and housing. Anyway the picture is his first work. What smart his hand is!!!