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This is true but Japanese building using these techniques are still standing for years and years the western way lasts for 50 to 80 top made out of just wood
I’ve seen Japanese carpenters working on a house before. Not a single metal fastener in sight; not even glue! They design all the joints to just slot together neatly and securely and before you know it, you have a beautiful Japanese style IKEA house!
@@kyleeames8229 this carpentry technique can be traced back to china. simple ones are millennia old, but it gained prominence during the han dynasty. Gustav Ecke's Chinese Domestic Furniture book was published in 1944. check it out.
yeah that's very common, most of us have seen that and more too I bet. It's just pretty common and not out of the ordinary of what almost everyone sees on most regular days.
Beautiful and a good lesson that one doesn’t need tens of thousands of dollars worth of work benches and exotic equipment to produce beautiful joinery!
@@ShawnWitty Chuckle, relax Shawn, I’m just kidding … sort of. I just finished watching a lengthy video about the nuances of carpentry benches the models of which are breathtakingly beautiful, surprisingly complex and frigging expensive - and are apparently essential to the craft - I’m 73 and find myself wondering how I ever built anything on my work benches. Now I didn’t ever say I have anything against workbenches, I’ve used one since I was in my teens crafting dashboards for cars, and I don’t have anything against the individual who built a workbench worth thousands of dollars. My point is *such workbenches are not necessary.* The amount of beautiful clear maple and exotic hardwoods that went into that bench I saw was really quite incredible but it is not a necessary expense for any woodworker. Ergo, as an illustration, H Carpenter’s workbench was nothing like those expensive workbenches yet he turns out very lovely timber joinery. Now, H Carpenter usually demonstrates hand tools but also uses power tools to great effect, albeit power tools that are about as far from exotic equipment as one could want. You seem perplexed by the word exotic … Lordy … TH-cam is littered with it and at one level it means more than is needed. At this point, let’s separate commercial production equipment, custom cabinet and furniture making and the home based amateur work. The first two use the best equipment they can justify to remain competitive - they don’t count here. The custom cabinet / furniture maker will probably do much more hand work simply because his/her customers want and demand it to be done that way. However, in his videos, H Carpenter demonstrates what can be done with a rickety bench, a hand saw, chisels, c clamps, a rudimentary leg vice and a mallet. To be honest I think this is closer to where beginners should start their woodworking journey, not with Festool, thousand dollar routers, CNC machines, etc. The more esoteric the machinery the further away one is from actually understanding wood. Indeed, my response is partly personal … for example, I cut thousands of dovetails with a Leigh Dovetail Jig, but it wasn’t until I began to hand cut dovetails that I really began to understand them. So, Shawn Witty, “that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.”
A note to anyone wanting to achieve accuracy in joinery. Don't ever use a standard pencil no matter how sharp, and never those horrible fat carpenters pencils. Get a modern .7mm or .5mm auto pencil. Then always work to the outside of that line when cutting. I have 40 years of experience and this is the number 1 tip I will give you. Fat pencil lines are a disaster. Always leave an area to clean away with a chisel and you will achieve some amazing accuracy. One further tip. You can buy a powder that locksmiths use as a lubricant for locks its called graphite. If you apply it to one face it's like dark pencil powdered lead and it will show you when assembling the joints the high spots that need removal. It's cheating but it's an inside tip.
That pencil tip is exactly what I needed, I was wondering why my fine mitres were not working out. That makes complete sense. Been using the big fat pencils
The Master Craftsman created a unique joint, immaculately, strongly, very accurately, using only basic, but essential hand & measuring tools, which many people don’t know. That’s what separates top professionals from amateurs.
Im guilty of wanting to use electronic tools but only because i started late and I'm never going to be the greatest.. but using hand tools is definitely great practice
This joint appears to be more about looks than strength. The "wings" of the star part would shear shear off if it came under any tension, and since the remaining point is essentially a backwards dovetail, there's nothing left to hold it together. The two stubby tenons to the side serve no purpose at all. There's an awful lot of time and skill invested here in a joint that ends up not being worth much.
Notice the specialist wide chisels used to clear the extra tapered spaces in the square leg part of this joint. I WISH I was one tenth as skilled as this guy.
Not just woodworking... It seems to me that EVERYTHING they do, they do it to near perfection.. I have SO much respect for their culture and their way of life..
Man's sharpening skills. His precision with the chisels and handsaw. His ability to just design a joint like that. True artistry. I was curious about wood. Is wood cheaper there or is he (or you if you answer questions in your comments) just cutting and milling for your own personal use? People like this are incredible.
I wouldnt ever want to use a screw anyways. Never use screws for supporting stuff because they snap under pressure. Nails are better because they bend but are just as strong
And you can tell he made his own saw handle two and knows how to work that blade you don't see much like this done anymore anywhere without our machinery very impressive he could definitely make some Fine Furniture
Impressive amount of skill and work involved here, but is anybody else wondering about the ultimate strength in that one, approx 1-1/4" x 2" center connection piece? Any strong lateral impact, elongation or twisting load could compromise that small center section to premature failure. That center section could be made at least 1" wider (to 2-1/4" or even 2-1/2") for much improved lateral, and other loads...
Maybe that would link up better, but are screws and “L” joints faster and as effective? I imagine it’s a matter of what resources one has on hand. Time,money, machinery, metal for screws. This is very skilled and inventive. I like it
Japanese culture has a thing where if a building gets destroyed or damaged, if it is rebuilt using the same methods that were originally used for it, it is basically the exact same building. So there are specialty shops that still use these methods specifically for the use on historical structures. Japan has, historically, not had access to very much metal and what they did have had to be more heavily refined to be usable compared to most other parts of the world, so methods like this were developed for building making.
Those would be considerably weaker, but this is a decorative joint, it won't be as strong as a big dovetail or pegged mortise and tennon, and either of those are much faster and easier to cut. They won't look as good, but often strength and speed are more important, which is why you can find mortise and tennon joinery in thousands of timber framed barns all across America but probably won't find a single one of these even though each of those barns will have dozens of joints.
![I Can't Build a Bench More Beautiful Than This [Carpenter’s DIY]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Kp4wg9qWtmk/mqdefault.jpg)
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Reminds me of the dragon thrones
joints
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This is true but Japanese building using these techniques are still standing for years and years the western way lasts for 50 to 80 top made out of just wood
what timber is this? both look nice for working
Ted’s is a scam long ago exposed.
Man you Japanese people are masterpiece in woodworking. I really love and admire your skills
❤❤❤
いや、多分タイとか中国とかベトナムの人じゃないかな？
@xxxKAWAUSOxxx I think the carpenter is from Vietnam.
Yep, definitely Viet Nam based on the bag design and the view
@@xxxKAWAUSOxxxthe technique comes from japan i believe
Amazing work done there. The precision is insane. Japanese joinery is just outstanding.
これは日本じゃないよ
the old man is clearly a vietnamese
@@Roi-su8mo I've seen Indian and Bangladeshi carpenters do these too. Clearly it's not a Japanese only thing
@@Roi-su8moExperience Man, congratulations and best regards ❤😊.
I think your going a little overboard.
I might say this man has the patience of a rock. I could do it but i would get bored to easily.
I’ve seen Japanese carpenters working on a house before. Not a single metal fastener in sight; not even glue! They design all the joints to just slot together neatly and securely and before you know it, you have a beautiful Japanese style IKEA house!
do you like it ?
Yes! It’s beautifully elegant. It gives the impression of a long architectural tradition that perhaps began millennia; if not tens of millennia ago.
@@kyleeames8229 this carpentry technique can be traced back to china. simple ones are millennia old, but it gained prominence during the han dynasty. Gustav Ecke's Chinese Domestic Furniture book was published in 1944. check it out.
Much like Ikea furniture, Japanese homes are destined for the land fill after a short lifespan.
yeah that's very common, most of us have seen that and more too I bet. It's just pretty common and not out of the ordinary of what almost everyone sees on most regular days.
Once again another satisfying result. You are truly a master Mr. H
Absolutely amazing. This goes way beyond our tongue and groove.
True but it wouldn't work for many places TAG is used like joining floor boards or roofing panel OSB together.
amazing, I remember what was my father's daily work... He was a carpenter.
It´s such an incredible pleasure to see this man at work - he is nearly an artist, not only a carpenter!
That is what craftsmanship is about
Carpentry is an art.
Art ---> artifice ----> to create something
Craft and art are technically etimological synonyms
Beautiful and a good lesson that one doesn’t need tens of thousands of dollars worth of work benches and exotic equipment to produce beautiful joinery!
@@ShawnWitty Chuckle, relax Shawn, I’m just kidding … sort of. I just finished watching a lengthy video about the nuances of carpentry benches the models of which are breathtakingly beautiful, surprisingly complex and frigging expensive - and are apparently essential to the craft - I’m 73 and find myself wondering how I ever built anything on my work benches. Now I didn’t ever say I have anything against workbenches, I’ve used one since I was in my teens crafting dashboards for cars, and I don’t have anything against the individual who built a workbench worth thousands of dollars. My point is *such workbenches are not necessary.* The amount of beautiful clear maple and exotic hardwoods that went into that bench I saw was really quite incredible but it is not a necessary expense for any woodworker. Ergo, as an illustration, H Carpenter’s workbench was nothing like those expensive workbenches yet he turns out very lovely timber joinery.
Now, H Carpenter usually demonstrates hand tools but also uses power tools to great effect, albeit power tools that are about as far from exotic equipment as one could want. You seem perplexed by the word exotic … Lordy … TH-cam is littered with it and at one level it means more than is needed. At this point, let’s separate commercial production equipment, custom cabinet and furniture making and the home based amateur work. The first two use the best equipment they can justify to remain competitive - they don’t count here. The custom cabinet / furniture maker will probably do much more hand work simply because his/her customers want and demand it to be done that way. However, in his videos, H Carpenter demonstrates what can be done with a rickety bench, a hand saw, chisels, c clamps, a rudimentary leg vice and a mallet. To be honest I think this is closer to where beginners should start their woodworking journey, not with Festool, thousand dollar routers, CNC machines, etc. The more esoteric the machinery the further away one is from actually understanding wood. Indeed, my response is partly personal … for example, I cut thousands of dovetails with a Leigh Dovetail Jig, but it wasn’t until I began to hand cut dovetails that I really began to understand them.
So, Shawn Witty, “that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.”
You just need tens of thousands of hours of practice or experience!
@@chuckw4680 Or tens of thousands of dollars to buy furniture made with no power tools!
You clearly don't NEED to, but this video sort of proves why all that fancy equipment is used by professionals in the first place
@@alanmonteros6432 ????????????? It’s used by professionals to make money.
A note to anyone wanting to achieve accuracy in joinery. Don't ever use a standard pencil no matter how sharp, and never those horrible fat carpenters pencils. Get a modern .7mm or .5mm auto pencil. Then always work to the outside of that line when cutting. I have 40 years of experience and this is the number 1 tip I will give you. Fat pencil lines are a disaster. Always leave an area to clean away with a chisel and you will achieve some amazing accuracy. One further tip. You can buy a powder that locksmiths use as a lubricant for locks its called graphite. If you apply it to one face it's like dark pencil powdered lead and it will show you when assembling the joints the high spots that need removal. It's cheating but it's an inside tip.
That pencil tip is exactly what I needed, I was wondering why my fine mitres were not working out. That makes complete sense. Been using the big fat pencils
lol bs
Dentists do the equivalent of the graphite trick. They don't consider it "cheating".
I've seen a video of a gunsmith that uses graphite when machining parts to check the fit.
Locksmith here, graphite power has so many usages that you would never think off unless you see people doing the odd tips on videos lol
I was surprised to see that you made this by hand with chisels, a hand saw, and a pen. Well done, and very impressive woodworking skills.
I am in awe at the excellence of the skill and artistry displayed here!
thanks you
Great😊
Absolutely amazing what a craftsman. Lovely to watch an artist at work👍and all done by hand
VERY IMPRESSIVE SKILLS
GOOD JOB MASTER 👍
GREETINGS FROM
CALIFORNIA , U S.A
PEACE ✌️🙏 !!!!
CALIFORNIA , U S.A ♥ love it
Another beautifully made joint 👍
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks for showing us how the joint fit right away
Fantástico!
The Master Craftsman created a unique joint, immaculately, strongly, very accurately, using only basic, but essential hand & measuring tools, which many people don’t know. That’s what separates top professionals from amateurs.
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Yes, it separates artisans from tradesmen. Both have a place.
Japanese woodworking joints are truly mesmerizing! 🌟 Making wood structures look so effortless and beautiful!
Nothing in this video is Japanese, except the joinry design
Im guilty of wanting to use electronic tools but only because i started late and I'm never going to be the greatest.. but using hand tools is definitely great practice
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Beautiful masterpiece. Skillfully handcrafted joinery. Your creation is amazing. I enjoyed your work.
Wow!! Done completely by hand, a true master at work!! Great job, I really appreciate hard work.
You my friend are an absolute genius. Stunning joinery
Not bad for a beginner! 👍 And putting a traditional Japanese music at the end to emphasize culmination of the whole process was on point!🎉
True master. Dedication worthy of respect.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, it's very instructive !
From France, Merci !
Looks nice, but isn't the wood just 1/3 strong at the connection then it was before?
This joint appears to be more about looks than strength. The "wings" of the star part would shear shear off if it came under any tension, and since the remaining point is essentially a backwards dovetail, there's nothing left to hold it together. The two stubby tenons to the side serve no purpose at all. There's an awful lot of time and skill invested here in a joint that ends up not being worth much.
Definitely an elegant solution.
Your SKILLS are AMAZING! Thank you for SHARING!
That's absolutely gorgeous! What a beautifully crafted precision joint!
Excellent work! 👍🏼👍🏼
That is amazing, very expensive, but amazing craftsmanship.
Notice the specialist wide chisels used to clear the extra tapered spaces in the square leg part of this joint. I WISH I was one tenth as skilled as this guy.
Great;.watching you work
I'm trying to improve my woodworking skills hopefully someday I'll be able to do work like this
Simply amazing. This bloke is the best I've seen. Best wishes from Yorkshire England
コメントの皆んなが、彼を日本人だと思っている😂
彼は東南アジアの人だよ。
やっぱ西洋から見れば違いがワカランのだろうな(´・ω・`)動画主も『日本の木工技術はAmazing』て言われて『yes』とか言っちゃってるもんな
Absolutely amazing work. My respect
Outstanding craftsmanship bowsaw chisel mallet no fancy machinery 👍
Aah, that sound. Chisel, wood and hammer!
Gorges it's so beautiful
The carpenter is really skillful, with precise craftsmanship in every detail. Excellent, well done.
That was a wonderful thing to watch such skills
True craftsman....amazing to watch🪚🔨
Japanese are by far the best woodworkers in the world
yes♥
Not just woodworking... It seems to me that EVERYTHING they do, they do it to near perfection.. I have SO much respect for their culture and their way of life..
You can also see the results of woodwork in Malaysia, Indonesia & Brunei, many wood carvings that are no less great
But the man in the video was not Japanese
@ yes, obviously. They developed the techniques though. Even the way they harvested their wood. Everything was an art form to its truest form
Papi c'est toi le meilleur
Master of the craft
amazing techniques! greetings from Argentina
Beautiful! 👏🏽👍🏽
WOW!
Amazing!
yeah
Love the Dusty Lumber impression
What a craftsman! I really enjoyed watching this!
That was a beautiful piece of joinery work.
what a skill. 👍
Fantastic & thank you for sharing!
This is not just woodworking, this is art as well.
amazing work.
this man is The Wood Bender!
Excellent work friend!!
CUSTOM STAIR RAILS AND POST, YOUR WORK IS GREAT GOD BLESS YOU
Absolutely fantastic what a skill to have
You have to live long life to get all these things done to the perfection.
Awesome job.
nice work. and the best thing no big brands, just good craftsmanship
Fantastic work!
ん〜素晴らしいですな✨
Striving for perfection takes you to it
Amazing work! 👍
Nice joinery work
Amazing woodworking skill!
Amazing...what a skilled craftsman:)
Good, now test it
😮❤❤❤❤❤ Japan is famous with its creativity.
absolutely magnificent
Great work.
Super excellent
Absolutely amazing skills. Wow.
One could almost see the sun go down while he was using the hand saw 😂
Great craftmanship!
😂
Замечательный мастер. Такая точность в работе. Считай "на колене". Да ещё и съемка без "воды". Класс! Класс! Класс!
Сушником:_криставина..😢
What a Master. Teach us Sensei!🫡🇯🇵
Awesome work :) ❤️
Good job very nice 👍
Man's sharpening skills. His precision with the chisels and handsaw. His ability to just design a joint like that. True artistry. I was curious about wood. Is wood cheaper there or is he (or you if you answer questions in your comments) just cutting and milling for your own personal use? People like this are incredible.
Úžasný spoj, geniálne.
Nice Job
Very Beautiful Work with Wood 🪵🪵🪵🤎🤎🤎🙏🏼🇯🇵👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Perfekt!👌
Beautiful work. Amazing talent. From Pakistan
I wouldnt ever want to use a screw anyways. Never use screws for supporting stuff because they snap under pressure. Nails are better because they bend but are just as strong
And you can tell he made his own saw handle two and knows how to work that blade you don't see much like this done anymore anywhere without our machinery very impressive he could definitely make some Fine Furniture
Impressive amount of skill and work involved here, but is anybody else wondering about the ultimate strength in that one, approx 1-1/4" x 2" center connection piece? Any strong lateral impact, elongation or twisting load could compromise that small center section to premature failure. That center section could be made at least 1" wider (to 2-1/4" or even 2-1/2") for much improved lateral, and other loads...
Ace Ventura: "Like a glove!"
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@@HCarpenterhow do you start learning to make Japanese woodworking joints?
Superb
Nice wood, nice work!
This is incredible!!
I love his smile.
Wow, lovely. Thank you so much.
Master craftsmanship.
Beautiful workmanship sir. Ill be watching more of your content for sure. Cheers from Canada my friend!
Maybe that would link up better, but are screws and “L” joints faster and as effective? I imagine it’s a matter of what resources one has on hand. Time,money, machinery, metal for screws. This is very skilled and inventive. I like it
Japanese culture has a thing where if a building gets destroyed or damaged, if it is rebuilt using the same methods that were originally used for it, it is basically the exact same building. So there are specialty shops that still use these methods specifically for the use on historical structures. Japan has, historically, not had access to very much metal and what they did have had to be more heavily refined to be usable compared to most other parts of the world, so methods like this were developed for building making.
For want of a nail, an art was born.@@Dunsparce206
Faster and cheaper, yes. But not as earthquake resistant.
Those would be considerably weaker, but this is a decorative joint, it won't be as strong as a big dovetail or pegged mortise and tennon, and either of those are much faster and easier to cut. They won't look as good, but often strength and speed are more important, which is why you can find mortise and tennon joinery in thousands of timber framed barns all across America but probably won't find a single one of these even though each of those barns will have dozens of joints.
How long did that take to connect one piece of wood to another ?