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Right after finishing the TV stand I got going a chest making, which was an order from my mom's friend. The size was 900 x 750 x 500 mm, four drawers. She just gave me the size and told me where she was going to put it, so its details were left to me. My first plan was, of course, to use veneer. Just thinking of the size and the cost I was allowed to spend, it was the best option. However, at

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It's good to have an old, unmarried friend with disposable money and just moved to a bigger apartment. Perfect situation for furniture sales, isn't it? Visiting his new place, I saw no TV stand and apparently he needed something to hold on his flat-screen TV higher. So I offered to make one for reasonable price. The price was half as it should be but enough to cover the production cost. I

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Having surrounded by many useful tools & machines, anyone can make furniture. Some uses nails and other uses ONLY hand tools as ancient people did. So to be some furniture maker, production is not so much trouble. The trouble is, apparently, to make sales. You simply count number of graduates of woodworking (or furniture design) schools of yours and compare it with the number of people who newly

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Sometimes I want to stop thinking and just move hands. I was that kind of mood this week. I finally finished a mock-up of a chair. It's also a piece for long-run test, so I used Domino for most of the joints. One thing I love about the city of Atsugi is the weather. You can enjoy sunshine in winter quite often and you don't have to turn on the lights in the early morning. It's really helpful

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Doing part-time job these days I don't have much energy and time to do anything else. Wow it's almost December. Before talking about what kind people I'm targeting, I think I should tell where in the world I've got the idea of marketing. It's from a book published in Japan, "Ureru Kaisha no Sugoi Shikumi (Amazing scheme of successful company) by Yoshinori Sato". You might understand why

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Finally and reluctantly a chair-making project resumed.  This is not for sale but also not a drill. It's rather a test run to see the performance of myself and the shop. Now I'm alone in the shop and it's been cleaned and improved space efficiency. It's about the time. Chair-making is really really sensitive, as well as designing. 1 degree is fatal difference. Probably the most comfortable

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wow, 2 weeks has already past since last update. I haven't done much but reached to one big milestone: shop modifying. now the shop is for two, not big enough for mass-production yet there's no excuse for not making stuff because of the space. pressure's on. There was one guy who popped in and out. He said he was from US and needed to make kitchen  cabinet for his house.  The shop was really

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I was waiting for this weapon so long, as I hadn't had proper machines to cut mortises.  It's pretty frustrating to make live tenon mortise & tenon joints every time I make something. But anymore from now on, someone makes snug fit tenons for me. Terrific.   It's cutting speed is depend on how fast you push it against the workpiece.  Yet I can tell you it's way faster than usual mortiser. Plus,

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As I've been failing to get a part time job since I came back (probably because I forgot polite Japanese?),  I have nothing to do but woodworking.  Three years in R.C. made me no longer available to accustom myself to "weird" Japanese business culture, which is fine.  F*** it all. Anyway, I found in a book a lovely dining chair, which designed by danish designer Bernt Petersen. Since I want a

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There's most of the stuff I need in the shop, except a few: a horizontal mortiser, an assistant, and saw horses. I can't afford the first two so I made saw horses. One set is already there, though I need two sets to cross cut a plank with hand saw. And it's always good to have extra pieces for anything. I decided to make 2 sets (4 horses), high one and low one. Last time I made 4 pieces it took

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It was a good sunny day in Takayama on 4th Sep., in the very middle of the main island.  The city is famous for furniture making, known for producing high skilled carpenter from ancient times. I went to one of the furniture maker KITANI  there, not applying a job but to see their museum. They make mid-century Danish furniture licensed by Danish designer/company.  Too bad I wasn't allowed to take

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People ask me "what wood do you use?" or "What's your favorite?", etc etc. It's actually hard to answer. I have used Afrormosia for chair and I really liked the wood just before shaping, I think Shedua will be my favorite when I have a thickness sander. I'd use Brazilian Rose if I'm allowed. Realistically I'd say to the question "something friendly to work, reasonable, and have nice colour".

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Okay, I'm introducing you one of the major lumber centre in Japan. It's in city of Tokyo, believe it or not, even in somewhat lovely water front area, located just next to the Tokyo Disney Land, fantastic. View Larger Map Shinkiba means "New lumber yard", I don't know where the old one was so don't ask. There's many of those "mei-boku ten" (high-end/rare wood dealer) here, however I know very

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One thing I feel lucky to be in Japan today is to be able to see Finn Juhl's vintage manutactured by Niels Vodder, (some are even skeletons), for free! There's a danish vintage furniture exhibition taken place at Rogoba-Tokyo (www.rogoba.co.jp) until 29th. (so it's not too late yet.) It's an expensive looking showroom in an expensive area so it takes great deal of courage to go inside if you

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It's still hot and humid in this country, especially in the afternoon. It demands you quite a strong motive and passion and love to wood to work in this environment, and plus, a lot of water. It's good to see a shop is being used and saw-dust is being made, not that I'm making a fancy cabinet but quick-and-cheap furniture for my empty apartment. There's no mortiser here right now so I'm using

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After drifting along for three months, I finally reached to a land that I can cast anchor.  I have to admit I have no where (if I continue woodworking) to go but here. It is as shiny as when I rented two years ago. Yes it's Brian Newell's shop in Atsugi, Japan. Unfortunately or not, the shop doesn't include Brian himself this time, he still has stuff to do in California before come back and

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It's damn hot here in Japan... 36 degC. I'm melting and really want to go back where I was. Anyhow I can finally upload something here. (Since I forgot to take my camera with me I have no picture about my maritime trip. Sucks.) I made this letter box at Jacques's shop, which is about 12"x9"x7", made of Mahogany, Bubinga, and white Oak. It's not a well-thought combination but just a off-cut

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As the title shows, I'm in Moncton, N.B., east of Quebec. Not so east yet. I'm taking time off now. It's quiet and good place to think deliberately about next step. I've been wondering for so long why it is so difficult to sell those one of a kind furniture? I want to know the reason. Anyhoo, next post will be up next month.

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There might be some misunderstanding in people who read the last post. I'm totally fine, a bit tired but haven't let things me down. I said end of a journey, not THE journey. (I thought my grammar was perfect, too perfect no body understood?) I meant the end of the 3 year-journey in "Canada". Right now Toronto isn't my place, but Japan needs me, or more precisely my type of people who dare to

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Uh-oh, I'm lost. Now I don't know which way I'm supposed to go. I've reached to the dead end of the way which I've been walking for 3 years. It seems that I need skill to sail in this uncharted sea from now on.  There was an option to stay one more year at IP. It's comfortable being there, like a paradise. Nice people, good environment, etc. But I can't stay there knowing that kind life is not

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I've had no time to update this blog since the slow furniture show. How could you if you were driving back to BC for a week?  I feel it's kind of too late to write about the show now but I have to. The first day morning was a mess. I lost the plan for the set-up (which means I was the only one who knew the layout), unexpected pieces popped in, the plan A didn't look well, etc... the time went by

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I was in Fort Bragg, CA last week to take a course at Brian Newell. Yup I've been traveling back and forth between West coast and East. It was a nice change for me from what I learnt in Roberts Creek. Some says it is detoxing. Detoxing from what?? Please use your imagination. Well, This is the ocean. There's nothing but sea. Exercise for each person is to make a veneered panel with lumber core

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4500km in 2 days and 11 hours.... that's what Mr. Google says about a trip from Roberts Creek to Toronto. Doable? Maybe. It ended up 4 days trip though. I and my buddy Jacques weren't tough enough to make 24 hours drive. I decided to move all the pieces for the slow furniture show in Toronto by myself a few weeks ago. It must be silly, but I wanted to collect pieces for the show as many as

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Project is completed, such a sweet sound. Last week and this week were so stressful and now I'm coffee addict.  Things went well, there was no scream or yelling. And most importantly I enjoyed hand tool work a lot. Pierce carving was a new challenge for me, actually this project exists for this work. The scroll saw in the school worked amazingly fine, I had no trouble to cut.  However, cleaning

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I've been enjoying an easy cruise after sensitive door fitting. Not that the back panels are easy to make but forgiven in some degree. As for the pierce carved panel material, I've finally chosen one: Makassar Ebony. I resawed a board that I bought in Japan last year and jointed edges to make it wider. Wow that board was so hard that I was able to feel the band saw blade was about to break (

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I thought door install was challenging element in cabinet making . I was nervous because I spent a lot of time to make this doors and I had no spare. But it ended up pretty good. These are the tool I used for hinge installing. XY mortising machine is missing though. People usually use trimmer or small router to cut slot. I think it works really good on carcass but not door. XY needs no weird set

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I'm not supposed to work hard during holiday, but I should make an announcement of my show on June 12 & 13th in Toronto. The title is "Slow Furniture Show" taken place at Arta Gallery in the Distillery District. The participants are Inside Passage School alumni, local craftsmen from Toronto and special guests. I think this will be great opportunity for who are really interested in this type of

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I made a journey to Vancouver Island last Saturday to see Felder machines, not that I'm buying them but there was an open house. Some said they're like Porsche or Mercedes of woodworking machinery and now I believe it's true. (Well they use aluminum a lot so maybe Audi.) Quality of each parts is really high and they have great concept/idea to each type of machines. It's completely different

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The main carcass is now glued... finally. It was done quite easily. I wonder what I was worrying about. Though it took all Saturday afternoon and evening. I'm too exhausted to write about it now. While I was postponing the glue up, some miner job got done. The back of the back panel is unnecessarily beautiful. And half a board of Boxwood has been wasted because of grain manipulation. Feel free

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I can't remember when I took last day-off, except the Seattle trip. I think I'm always at the school doing something. Not that it's an efficient way to work but this type of craft takes awful lots of time so. My chisels aren't this bad all the time. I'm showing the state of the edge right after tapping to Shedua a couple of times. I'm VERY convinced that I should not cheap chisels ever after.

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I went Seattle last weekend to check a furniture gallery. It was a good experience to see other craftsmen's work, and the price. It seems that I have to be a lot faster to meet the market price, unless my pieces have some special value. I don't think my works are arts, (though making shavings out of wooden plane or spokeshave is some sort of performance art,) I still want them to be useful and

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It's a bit annoying when thing aren't going as planned and running out of time. I'll show you how much I make progress each day. Feb 24th: Making dowelling Jigs, shelfs for storing parts. Feb 25th: Making a countdown calendar, setting doweling jigs. The calendar looks a bit gloomy, doesn't it? But how can you know how many days we have here? I need milestones and, ironically, it's fun to peel

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Selecting and choosing grain pattern of veneer are fun part, like a reward in exchange of time and extra burden to make core. Not only you can have many option to choose but can manipulate the richness of wood, easily. Here's an example. I was choosing Boxwood veneer for the inside of the cabinet. There are chiefly two pattern, flat sawn or quarter sawn. In other words, dynamic or static. Flat

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Although I was enjoying planing Shedua, going back to sharpening station every 5 minutes was retarded. So, I moved on to scraper. First I tried a Japanese scraper plane, which is meant be used to fix plane bottom warp. It worked okay, made shavings. But it wasn't properly set or not appropriate for this hard wood, it made me very tired (you need to press down hard and pull without body weight).

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I haven't been able to work as much as I desire recently.  It's not because there's too much interruption in the school but I can't get up as early as I want to. Maybe I'm stressing out my self more than acceptable by thinking the project, future, etc.. Basically the time here should be joyful, exciting moment in my life, more happiness than bitterness. Though it's sure there's a some degree of

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As the blog title shows, I make mock-ups. Not obsessively but more than other students do usually. To this day I've made two of 1/4 scale, one 1/2 scale, and one Full scale. There's a few reason to do this step. 1/4 is very easy and quick to build like a rough sketch, (It is a rough sketch size actually). 1/2 is still quick enough, easy to make changes and able to put detail in it. Full scale is,

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I've been making a detour from the main course (i.e. the main project) and today I came to the end of it.  I spent a good time with this key cabinet, I learnt new things, which I should've learnt long ago, and it minded me that cabinet making is fun. As the time hadn't been enough I didn't make the shape too complicated. The door and the sides are mildly round, the door pull is minimal. The

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I didn't know what to carve when I decided to make carved back panels. People usually have some  image beforehand. Technique comes first then does an object. Maybe I do wrong way. I've chosen arabesque, a motif which has used everywhere in the world for a long time. And a symbol of prosperous world. The image itself is an imaginary ivy on a wall.

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Just pictures I took on the way to fly back Vancouver from Japan. Warning, there's no connection to woodworking. I was in a bus connecting from a domestic airport to an international. It was in Tokyo, passing Shinkiba, a center of lumber trade in Japan. Gates. They rip off your money. Most road signs are bilingual. Although it doesn't guaranties people can go anywhere. There's no words

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During the break I was thinking about a show. Not a show to attend but a show to make from scratch.  The more I thought why I want have it the less I get confident. It's been a week since I started to my pen to write down my intention or purpose of it, yet to be done. I feel difficulty, it's not because I'm not good at English, something else. I have a clear vision or scene in my mind how the

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Not much to update, honestly. I've been spending time for side projects, like mini plane making or a key cabinet. The next project will resume next year. Until then, I'll take time off. A message box made of Kwila for a girl. Who is she? Secret. I just say she's a good girl. A shipping container filled with Lebanon ceder shavings. Mmm,  smells so good. A key cabinet made of Zebra wood. It

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I thought I could relax and enjoy watching people hustling to finish their project for the open house, the fact is that there's always something to do in the shop and I can't help working there. I made some gift for secret Santa, a kind of Inro box. I found some really nice piece of wood from the school's scrap bin, I haven't been figured out what it is. After that, I made a high angle plane,

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The table still need a few coats of shellac and wax finishing, I can say it's done. 2 months and a week. I really don't know why it took that long. Last week I was working on shaping legs, which was fun. I used 4 kinds of spokeshave, 2 flat and 2 curved bottom. The grain graphic of facets side is almost perfect. Tight straight grain matches really well with this leg shape. This piese has

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I remembered to make brass brackets before shaping legs, and it ended up taking most of days of past week. oh well, I'm not good at working efficiently, I know. So the table still hasn't been done! Did you know you can cut brass really easily by a band saw?  I was amazed and astonished. Cross cutting was also easy. When I used a table saw to do it, it made nasty noise and the brass heated up. I

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It's getting colder and colder these days, but no wonder it's almost December! Winter is tough season for me since I don't have much "Fixated Amino-acid Thermostabilizer (F. A. T.) underneath my cloths. Well, the hardest part of last week was to glue up the table base. There's a huge difference between with glue and without glue; you sweat and get thirsty, your heart beats high, and can't think

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He has launched a new website recently, which replaces the old one. (The old one has disappeared.) www.briannewellfurniture.com His stuff are pretty unique, cool, sometimes weird. For those who haven't seen them, take a look. He has two shops right now: in the US and in Japan. I rented Japanese one to make my working bench in summer of 2008, the machines were excellent condition and they

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Slowly but surely... it's moving forward. It seems that the works I need to do have kept increasing. Or in other words, the goal is like mirage. You never get close. Last week begun with temporary assembling all parts and making mock-up legs, which was an exciting moment. It looked like it didn't need 6 legs when they were thick and bulky, which made me pretty upset, but after they were

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About a quoter of students took days off this week because of cold, or maybe, flu. I'm not contagious so far but have had some symptoms of cold. I've been very very cautious about my physical condition this year, like washing hands, gargling, taking vitamin C, etc..., though it seems impossible to avoid cold virus in a fully packed school. Anyway, I'm behind the schedule yet all joints of the

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パソコンの時計を見たら１時間遅れていました。タイムセービングが終わったようです。今朝は寝坊したので得した気分です。明日からは１時間早く起きられるか・・・？  I was surprised that my computer clock was 1 hour delayed this morning. Oh year, people in this country move their clock hand back and forth. I might be able to go to school earlier tomorrow...? 天板にエッジを接着しているところです。板が平行になっていないので圧力を均等にエッジに加えるのにちょっとした工夫が必要です。ここでは曲線側に合板に溝を切った当て木を使っています。合板を使ったのはその辺に手ごろなスクラップが転がっていたから。

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天板のコアを作り始めてから早一週間、ようやく終わりが見えてきました。なんだか来る日も来る日も接着ばかりしている気がします。 シカモアのベニヤをコアに接着する準備をしているところです。間違えてくっつけないようわかりやすい印をつけます。  もしバキュームプレス派とメカプレス派がいるとしたら、自分はメカプレス派です。   最後に縁取りを接着して終わり！凸曲線の縁取り接着は意外と難しいものです。 機械を使える時間は限りがあるので、作業計画がずさんだとどんどん予定が遅れていきます。 授業で使用制限されるときもあれば、使いたい機械が順番待ちのときもあり（しょっちゅう）、おそらく一日４時間ほどしか機械作業していない気がします。もったいない。プロセス全体を見通して、その週終わらせる仕事、その日終わらせる仕事を割り振る能力が求められます。 

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　現在取りかかっている作品はコーヒーテーブルです。ソファの前に置いて、コーヒーやら雑誌をのせる事を想定しています。サイズは５０×２０×１８インチ（１２７×５１×４６cm）、材はヨーロピアンシカモアとハードメイプルを予定しています。 今回綺麗な縮み杢（波模様）が入ったヨーロピアンシカモアが手に入ったのでそれを天板にすることにしました。シカモアのトーンに似合ってかつ安価、強度がある材としてハードメイプルを選びました。カナダでは良質のハードメイプルが建材としてよく出回っています。日本だとあまり目にかからないでしょうか。 このシカモアをソリッド（無垢）の天板に仕様と画策していましたが、厚さ２インチの材を半分に挽き割ったところ最大１／４インチほど反ってしまったので、今回は突き板で加工します。工数がどんどん増えていきます。  　コーヒーテーブルを選んだ理由は売価を安く設定できる製品にトライ

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家具製作を行っている場所 Where I've been making furniture:   Inside Passage School of Fine Woodworking View Larger Map View Larger Map 学校内で家具製作を行っています。１年目のCraftsman Program、２年目のResident Craftsman Programを修了して３年目に突入しています。居候ですね。 Yes, I'm using the school facility, where I’ve passed through their Craftsman & Resident Craftsman Program. This is the 3rd year.

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このブログは自らの木工家具製作の記録と、日々の製作の中で思った事あれこれ綴ることを目的とする、いわば航海日記のようなものです。ふらっと立ち寄られた方、意見質問はどしどしどうぞ。極力応える予定です。千客万来。 作品の写真及び製作内容の複製、転載はご遠慮願います。 This blog is about my journey of making furniture with beautiful woods. You are welcome to leave comments, I'll reply to them ASAP. All rights reserved.

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