Residency at Mt. Fuji Wood Culture Society
Making a chair seat using a drillpress, rounded ax and hand planes. Taught by Tak Yoshino as this is his speciality.He has over 300 different hand planes, and many of them have customised curvatures. The surface becomes so smooth you don’t haveto sand it, and hand planes with steeper curves can also be used to make textures in the wood.
Kanawa Tsugi joinery - making a curved backrest
This joinery is used in traditional japanese carpentry, commonly to extend the length of beams. When the two pieces lock together, a gap remains in the centre, where a hardwood peg is inserted. This peg has a wedge shape, which assures that the joinery tightly closes and prevents it from coming undone
For the chair backrest, the pieces are glued and cut into a curve, making it into one solid piece. This has been one of the main things I have practised the past month, each time trying to get it tighter with less gaps