Join our workshop where we will fell trees, prepare them, and learn the principles of center-line layout on an irregularly shaped timber. Details Coming Soon
In this workshop we will learn the fundamentals of the SketchUp CAD tool, and use it to design joints as a way to understand them in our minds. We’ll then transfer our ideas to the raw material, layout out some traditional joinery.
Join us for a unique experience melding the practice of Zen and Japanese Woodworking, training your whole self for two intensive weeks at the Chozen-ji Zen temple in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii. Students will participate in a rigorous program of Zen meditation and woodworking training learning the fundamentals of Japanese tools and constructing a small timber-frame structure.
A no mercy training block to take a new woodworker and prepare them for a timber framing workshop. In this assault on the senses set up a Japanese chisel, sharpen it, and learn to cut mortise and tenon joinery.
During this six day workshop, students will learn to cut and raise a simple garden shed frame that employs traditional Japanese timber framing techniques. An enclosed area to store the various items for the garden and yard, and a sheltered, open area for the mower. A flexible structure that could easily be versioned into a greenhouse with changes to the roof, or a chicken coup with changes to the walls.
Learn the detailed art of making shoji screens and traditional doors from Brian Holcombe. In this workshop students will use a combination of traditional Japanese tools and modern woodworking equipment to build themselves a sample shoji screen that they may keep.
Come learn the fundamental skills required to cut a timber frame. This workshop focuses on chisel selection, set-up, sharpening, and cutting of the mortise and tenon and housed dovetail joint. We will review techniques for using power tools to speed up joinery cutting. Students will engage in intense practice to quickly refine their abilities.
A no mercy training block to take a new woodworker and prepare them for a timber framing workshop. In this assault on the senses set up a Japanese chisel, sharpen it, and learn to cut mortise and tenon joinery.
Join us for a a full immersion in the construction and raising of a Japanese timber frame. Students will learn and gain practice cutting different joints and assembling a building to house a traditional Japanese blacksmith forge.
Join us for a weekend of inspiration, education, and community as we gather to celebrate traditional Japanese woodworking.
A no mercy training block to take a new woodworker and prepare them for a timber framing workshop. In this assault on the senses set up a Japanese chisel, sharpen it, and learn to cut mortise and tenon joinery.
Join us for a a full immersion in the construction and raising of a Japanese timber frame. Students will learn and gain practice cutting different joints and assembling a structure.
“At first only your mom won’t notice the mistakes, eventually regular people won’t notice them, and then at some point fellow woodworkers may miss them. We all make mistakes, that’s how we learn and grow.”
