Wow, just wow. Kawai Tsugite joint

[SVB]

]Never seen this before. What kind of mind is needed tto design this?

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/_dhhyXBdqtc/

 

[Trigs]

i spent 2 hrs a while back watching Japanese joints on Youtube when i couldn't sleep.... amazing stuff

 

[Phil Pascoe]

All I'm getting is a heading and nothing else.

 

[flh801978]

Me too

 

[beganasatree]

AND ME,just a blank screen.

Peter

 

[Steve Maskery]

It requires Flash. Do you have a script blocker enabled?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Absolutely no idea what either Flash or a script blocker is.

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

It worked for me once I clicked the "translate this page" thing in Chrome. Quite an amazing joint.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Tried that - no difference.

 

[AES]

Worked fine for me - a fascinating joint.

What I want to know is when will Steve Maskery come up with a jig for it!

:lol:

AES

 

[gregmcateer]

Worked fine for me - a fascinating joint.

What I want to know is when will Steve Maskery come up with a jig for it!

:lol:

AES

+1 from me. If Steve does, I'll step away from the spinny stuff!!

 

[Steve Maskery]

I'm flattered by your faith in me, guys, but I'm afraid I am a bear of very little brain. That is WAAAAAAY beyond anything I can conceive of.

 

[Wildman]

your next project then Steve, hee hee. It is amazing by the way some detail

watch this as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8vJ11cXLs4

 

[AES]

Oh come on Steve, don't be shy, it looks a doddle for a man of your calibre! Just a few kind of "dovetaily" things

:lol:

AES

 

[Eric The Viking]

I'm guessing this is perfect for transportable picnic tables, but obviously you will need to include assembly instructions (or risk ruining the romance of any picnic).

I can't think how you might describe the pieces of that joint, either -- are they mortices and tenons, dovetails, rebates, or something else entirely. We tend to only have names for a squared world.

Seriously though, how do you cut the bits at the bottom of the pieces in the picture. They seem to be blind holes (mortices) that require a reasonably flat bottom to them for strength. Do the people who specialise in doing this sort of thing have special tools - tiny adzes or bent chisels or router planes?

It must take days, if not weeks to do.

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

There's a video of someone making one here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O1O1lz6zOo

In, I think, Polish. Done by hand but some discussion of jigs for machines at the end.

 

[Wildman]

Seriously though, how do you cut the bits at the bottom of the pieces in the picture. They seem to be blind holes (mortices) that require a reasonably flat bottom to them for strength. Do the people who specialise in doing this sort of thing have special tools - tiny adzes or bent chisels or router planes?

It must take days, if not weeks to do.

Carefully, hee hee, actually when you look at it most of the waste can be cut away across the angle of the triangles I am still trying to find more detailed instructions.
Sporkey beat me to it, so just a triple dovetail cut on a corner at 45 degrees, simple then.

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

I think there are other angles involved too, but the basic geometry isn't as complicated as it looks at first glance. I might have a go at drawing it up in CAD.

Cutting one is somewhat beyond my current abilities though.