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Are you a weekend hobby carpenter with a passion for creating high-quality pieces, but not quite the equipment budget to match? Would you like to know how to create Japanese joints using common tools? Japanese joinery is an ancient carpentry skill developed in a time before mass production, when ingenuity and character of design still mattered. Now, you can revive this ancient art and introduce it to your own carpentry designs.

Are you a weekend carpenter that wants to make traditional Japanese joints? Do you want to apply Japanese ingenuity of design to everyday furniture and give them a special character? For centuries before the invention of screws and fasteners, Japanese craftsmen used complex, interlocking joints to connect pieces of wood for structures and beams, helping to create a unique Japanese aesthetic that can still be seen in the works of modern masters like Shigeru Ban. Up until recent times, however, these techniques were often the carefully guarded secrets of family carpentry guilds.