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Japanese Gate Typology (30)
This is a series of posts describing the many varieties of Japanese gate, or mon (門). If you look at the preceding kanji more closely, you can think of it as a picture of a pair of swinging doors,...
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Japanese Gate Typology (31)
This is a series of posts describing the many varieties of Japanese gate, or mon (門). If you look at the preceding kanji more closely, you can think of it as a picture of a pair of swinging doors,...
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Japanese Gate Typology (32)
This is a series of posts describing the many varieties of Japanese gate, or mon (門). If you look at the preceding kanji more closely, you can think of it as a picture of a pair of swinging doors,...
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Japanese Gate Typology (33)
This is a series of posts describing the many varieties of Japanese gate, or mon (門). If you look at the preceding kanji more closely, you can think of it as a picture of a pair of swinging doors,...
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Tools of the Trade: Wera
I thought I'd start a new series here on the blog, despite the fact that there are several other series on the go, to one extent or another. It seems like a worthwhile thing to share my experiences...
View ArticleComing Up For Air
It's been nearly three weeks since my last post. Time can fly by when you're completely absorbed in a project. I'm making some pieces for an artist in New York and after 11 months of inactivity...
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Cross-cutting the German Way
I use various tools for cross-cutting. A lot of time, it is with a handsaw, a ryoba or dozuki or azebiki, depending:Other times I am inclined to use my sliding compound miter saw, or, when the...
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Lo-Cust Raised Beds?
Spring is here in the northeast and added to the various tasks I am engaged with at present is getting the garden ready, which has so far included planting several fruit trees and roto-tilling the...
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Lo-Cust Raised Beds? Part II
Perhaps the most enjoyable aspect about this project is the opportunity it presents to not sweat the details so much as I tend to do when making a piece of furniture or the like. It's a chance to just...
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Lo-Cust Raised Beds? Part III
Hope the title's word play is obvious - locust, 'lo-cust' and 'low cost'. My wife wasn't picking up on that association, which leads me to believe many readers were equally puzzled. Oh well, it was...
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Tower of Power
My wife and I decided we wanted to grow peas and beans on a trellis. I figured I could come up with something that could mount on one of the locust beds I completed recently. After considering a few...
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Wheeling out New Work
The current New York Magazine features a cover story about Jeff Koons:In January of 2012 I came across an article on low-tech magazine's website about Chinese Wheelbarrows which I found quite...
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Trellis - all about it(?)
Final piece of 'architecture for the garden is now underway, a tiered trellis. Unlike tower of power, this piece does not feature battered (compound-sloped) posts. It has its points of interest...
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Trellis - all about it(?) Part Two
Today's boo-boo - I'm on some sort of hot streak here - involved my finger meeting the hollow chisel mortiser in an untoward manner:I'll spare you the graphic photos. It's really not too bad. In fact,...
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Trellis - all about it(?) Part Three
Moving thing along with the tale of a grille gone mad. Things are, uh, starting to mesh perhaps.Today was a day of fitting, initially envisioned as a couple of hours, not a day. Funny how things...
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Trellis - all about it(?) Conclusion
This little beast was more work to build than anticipated, however the page has been turned. I thought I'd share some pictures of the assembly and installation.I started with the lower tier of the...
View ArticleSilence is Golden, so they Say
Yah, no new posts for while. Work continues apace on the Koon's Hulk (Wheelbarrow) 32.A ship has come into harbor recently, one I've been keen to see up close for several years now, however and I will...
View ArticlePeak Timber
I'm been thinking about where a good place to store value might be, and I've concluded that, for me, a good instrument is wood. For luthiers and many musicians, a good instrument is wood as well, but...
View ArticleHe's Making Furniture
Something vaguely familiar about this, can't quite put my finger on it:
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After the Hiatus
It's been too long since hitting 'publish' on a blog post. I haven't actually fallen off the face of the earth, though it might seem like it. A brief summary of recent happenings: - work on the Chinese...
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