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Japanese Toolbox and Handcut Joinery
Original price was: $1,075.00.$1,021.25Current price is: $1,021.25.
March 26th to 30th, 2025 | 9:00am to 5:00pm
If you want to master your hand tools and learn new joinery then this Japanese Toolbox class is the class for you. Learn more about this amazing handcut joinery class taught by Andrew Hunter below.
- Material is included
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| Format | In-Person |
|---|---|
| Furniture Type | Shop Furniture |
| Skill Level | Beginner, Intermediate |
| Time Frame | Weekdays – Daytime, Weekend |
Name: Japanese Toolbox and Handcut Joinery
Instructor: Andrew Hunter
Skill Level: All Levels
Format: 5 Day in-person course
Date: March 26th to 30th, 2025
Class Description:
Join furniture maker and educator Andrew Hunter in building a Japanese tool box packed full of amazing techniques. You may have read the article Andrew wrote about this toolbox in Fine Woodworking Magazine (issue #257) but in this class you’ll get hands on experience working with hand tools and learn all the best tips and tricks. Unlike a traditional Japanese box built with nails, this one is chocked full of fun wood joinery; through tenons, dovetails and even tapered sliding dovetails, all cut by hand!
Andrew will guide students through each step of the process, as if it were a fine piece of furniture. He will show students how to work safely and accurately, from cutting out parts from a single wide board, to a hand plane finish. You don’t have to use Japanese tools to enjoy Andrew’s classes. He definitely loves Japanese tools, but his main goal is to encourage people to use hand tools, regardless of who made them. There is a role for hand tools in every shop, professional or amateur, but developing proficiency with them takes practice. That is what this week is all about. If you have taken Andrew’s classes before, you know, you will leave with more than just a tool box.
- Perfect joinery starts and ends with perfect layout.
- Learn to use hand tools to shave layout lines in half.
- Extra guidance on the use of Japanese tools.
- Compression fit joinery, without glue.
- Cut through tenons, dovetails and even tapered sliding dovetails all by hand!
- Use Andrew’s kanna to put a hand plane finish on your box.
- Jigs and pairing guides will guide any skill level to success.
- Can be flat packed for shipping and assembled at home.
What you’ll need:
Required
- Ryoba Saw – I recommend a 210 or 240mm Ryoba (Double blade saw)
Optional (If you don’t bring your own you will have to share the school’s limited quantity)
- Set of chisels – with at least 1/4″, or 3/8. Also 1/2″, 3/4″ or 1″ will be helpful.
- A long paring chisel or router plane for paring the bottom of sliding dovetails.
- Hammer or mallet.
- Straight edge or ruler.
- 12″ square.
- Sliding combination square or sliding gauge for laying out lines parallel to an edge.
- Dozuki Saw – A rip dozuki is good for dovetatils and cheeks of tenons. and a crosscut dozuki is good for shoulders
- Other handplanes if you have them
- Dovetail plane if you have them
If you have done some woodworking, and have some tools you think would be useful, feel free to bring them. It does not hurt to bring more than you need.
Austin School of Furniture has the right to cancel this class at anytime if the minimum amount of students is not reached.
