DIY Japanese Joinery
Online Video Courses
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Joinery Intensive Course
This Joinery Intensive Course offers more than skill demonstrations, providing a detailed walkthrough of joinery processes, emphasizing the importance of sizes, proportions, and sequence with historical insights and practical examples. It shares tips from Japanese craftsmen adaptable to personal projects, ensuring a valuable learning and creating experience, regardless of your current project involvement.
All About Japanese Woodworking Tools Course
This course highlights the essential role of tools in quality craftsmanship, focusing on the proper tuning of major woodworking tools—saws, chisels, and planes. It covers tool types, usage, and maintenance, based on expert teachings that 80% of work quality depends on tools, advocating for their optimal tuning to enhance craftsmanship.
Hand Sharpening Course
The Hand Sharpening course teaches essential techniques for properly sharpening chisel and plane blades, emphasizing the importance of flattening the blade's back before addressing the bevel. It covers suitable sharpening stones, ideal angles, and frequency, highlighting the potential cost of mistakes with expensive tools. This expert-led course is designed to instill a crucial, lifelong sharpening skill.
Skill Building Projects (Plans Included)
Early in my apprenticeship, I struggled with slow progress compared to my peers. My master recommended a few simple projects to enhance my basic hand tool skills. After dedicating several weeks to these projects in the empty workshop, I significantly improved and could craft various items with ease.
If you're facing similar challenges, these five straightforward projects can help you develop crucial skills for manual woodworking and boost your confidence.
Project Pack
(Plans Included)
Ready to unlock your woodworking potential? Our Project Pack equips you with the essential skills to craft almost anything using hand tools alone. As you advance, you'll also develop an intuitive understanding of timber characteristics and wood grain flow. This knowledge enhances your proficiency with machines and power tools, distinguishing you as a true master of woodworking.
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Have you always wanted to learn Japanese woodworking techniques? Always wanted to know how to use those exotic Japanese carpentry tools, but did not know where to begin?
This DIY Japanese Joinery Online Video Course is a complete video tutorial, created to teach beginners the basics of this ancient Japanese craft. Video lectures of the highest quality will give you everything you need to get started: detailed step-by-step instructions, invaluable tips, and quick reference tools to help you achieve success.
At the beginning, the course will focus on the finer details of Japanese woodworking, and help you get a feel for the art through practice drills and easy projects. As you learn, new and more difficult skills will be introduced gradually. Along the way, you will gain the confidence required to master the essential skills to develop your own style.
What Our Happy Students Are Saying
Trevor
I bought into Hisao’s DIY Japanese Joinery online course after seeing his YouTube videos and then seeing his Kickstarter campaign… it is the best thing I have done for grounding my skills in the techniques of woodworking with Japanese tools and techniques.Hisao remove all mystique from the “mysterious” world of Japanese tools by beginning at the very beginning and stepping you through the beautifully “simple” tools design, setting up, maintenance and use. Hisao uses very clear instructions throughout the videos, and it is such a brilliant reference to be able to come back to from time to time to check on things one may have missed, or to deepen pone’s understanding of the world of Japanese woodworking… from tools and techniques to joints and approaches to working with timber.All round, Hisao’s DIY Japanese Joinery is excellent value for money
Jack
This course offers a detailed look into the world of woodworking in a very practical way. I loved watching a master execute complex tasks from beginning to end while providing useful tips on how to position your body and how to handle the tools. I found myself re-watching the same videos over and over again while in the shop practicing the techniques. I got to know the tools on a much more personal level and how versatile they are. I recommend this course to anyone who is interested in diving deeper into the art of woodworking.
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