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.
Compete for the thinest plane shaving with the Japanese hand plane.
Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival Group Demo Spit a log, hew the sides, adze the top, and practice with the Japanese spear plane.
This presentation is part of the Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival. Click below to learn more and register for the festival:
This event is part of the Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival. Click below to learn more and register for the festival:
This presentation is part of the Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival. Click below to learn more and register for the festival:
A straightforward, unsentimental explanation of the nature of Japanese tools and woodworking, and how there is more of a connection with the wider woodworking world than you may think.
During this year’s Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival we are providing informal venues for attendees to interface with top craftspeople to work through tool questions, troubleshooting, and gain experience.
Practice your kanna and planing skills on difficult wood with Jon Billing! More details to come…
This event is part of the Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival. Click below to learn more and register for the festival:
During this year’s Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival we are providing informal venues for attendees to interface with top craftspeople to work through tool questions, troubleshooting, and gain experience.
Learn and practice your chisel skills with Matt Connorton! More details to come…
This event is part of the Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival. Click below to learn more and register for the festival:
During this year’s Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival we are providing informal venues for attendees to interface with top craftspeople to work through tool questions, troubleshooting, and gain experience.
Practice your kanna set up and planing skills with Brian Holcombe! More details to come…
This event is part of the Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival. Click below to learn more and register for the festival:
During this year’s Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival we are providing informal venues for attendees to interface with top craftspeople to work through tool questions, troubleshooting, and gain experience.
Practice your hewing skills with Yann Giguere! More details to come…
This event is part of the Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival. Click below to learn more and register for the festival:
Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival Presentation Strange grain patterns, knots and defects all can make planing tricky. Learn from Jon Billing techniques and methods for hand planing difficult wood.
This event is part of the Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival. Click below to learn more and register for the festival:
In this demonstration they will show kata along with some explanations and application. Afterward they will discuss and explain the woodworking side and how it applies to our current practice along with opportunities for questions and answers.
Daniel Pinder
@tosa_samurai
Daniel is a full time finish carpenter and martial artist. Carpentry is his passion job and the pursuit of the Japanese method has been life changing.
His martial art journey has been a lifetime training in Iaido, kendo, kenjutsu, karate, judo, kyudo and sojutsu. Daniel has trained in Muso Shinden Ryu for over 20 years and is an Iaido sensei.
Josh Slaby
@tosa_no_kaiden
Josh has been training in various Martial arts for 18 years, and various sword styles for a decade. His love of Japanese swords and their fittings, inevitably lead to exploring the world of Japanese hand tools in order better maintain the swords used while training. Hi considers himself a lifelong student, and is always looking to gain deeper knowledge those arts he studies.
This event is part of the Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival. Click below to learn more and register for the festival:
Carving the Divine is a documentary film that offers a rare look into a 1400-year-old Buddhist woodcarving tradition and the practitioners struggling to preserve its legacy in a rapidly changing Japan.
Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival Friday Workshop Spend the afternoon with Jim Blauvelt learning how to layout and then cut a kanna dai.
Maine Japanese Woodworking Festival Friday Workshop Spend the morning with Yann Giguere learning how to scribe and carve to fit the base of the post to the contours of the foundation stone.
Join us for a weekend of inspiration, education, and community as we gather to celebrate traditional Japanese woodworking.
Learn from Japanese master carpenter Kohei Yamamoto of Somacousha and Jon Billing of Big Sand Woodworking during 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 large structure to house the NSB sawmill.
Attendance limited to 16 students.
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.
Attendance limited to 6 students.
Learn the art of hewing logs for Japanese timber framing from Yann Giguere and Kohei Yamamoto. In this workshop we will learn the setup and sharpening of the tools, gain lots of practice hewing logs, and learn irregular log and centerline layout techniques.
Attendance limited to 10 students.
Learning a fundamental joint in both furniture and timber construction. In this workshop we will layout, cut and fit mortise and tenons and explore methods to fix them in place.
Attendance limited to 6 students.
Learn from master carpenter and blacksmith Jim Blauvelt how to layout and cut a dai for a Japanese plane as well as tuning and adjustment techniques to take your planing to the next level.
Attendance limited to 6 students.
An introduction to the fundamentals of setting up and using a Japanese Hand plane. In this workshop we will set up a brand new kanna, learn tuning techniques and practice taking shavings.
Attendance limited to 6 students.
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.
Attendance limited to 6 students.
An introduction to the Japanese pull saw, its use in joinery, as well as using power hand saws for cutting joinery. In this workshop we will learn proper sawing techniques, understanding basic layout, and cutting to a line.
Attendance limited to 6 students.
An introduction to the fundamentals of sharpening with waterstones and chisel set up. In this workshop we’ll set up a Japanese chisel, sharpen it and practice cutting mortises.
Attendance limited to 6 students.
