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  • Intermediate Guide to Japanese Joinery

  • The Secret to Making Complex Japanese Joints and Furniture Using Affordable Tools
  • Written by: Jin Izuhara
  • Narrated by: Shiro Kawai
  • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins

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Intermediate Guide to Japanese Joinery

Written by: Jin Izuhara
Narrated by: Shiro Kawai
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Publisher's Summary

Are you a weekend hobby carpenter with a passion for creating high-quality pieces, but not quite the equipment budget to match? Would you like to know how to create Japanese joints using common tools? Japanese joinery is an ancient carpentry skill developed in a time before mass production, when ingenuity and character of design still mattered. Now, you can revive this ancient art and introduce it to your own carpentry designs.

Whether you are making a living off your carpentry, or simply performing a labor of love in your garage on weekends, there is nothing holding you back from using the Intermediate Guide to Japanese Joinery to introduce this art to your wood designs. The tools used are likely sitting in your toolbox right now, and if they aren’t, they are definitely affordable for everyone.

If you want to take your carpentry to the next level, Japanese joinery is the way to do exactly that. All you need is this helpful guide and your existing tools to get started right away.

Inside the Intermediate Guide to Japanese Joinery, you will discover:  

  • Eight traditional Japanese joints and projects along with the specifications required to build them
  • How to select the correct types of wood for these joints as well as the reasons these wood types are ideal
  • The top tools required to fashion Japanese joints and their usefulness in recording studios and earthquake-prone areas
  • The innovation behind metal-free joints that are necessary for areas where high-powered magnets exist including nuclear medicine or particle physics labs
  • The specialized characteristics behind Japanese joinery and why, in certain cases, no other type of joint will do

Don’t delay learning this ancient craft and get started on your Japanese joinery journey right now by listening now.

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