Interesting Japanese Woodworking

[jon reedy]

I found this woodworker on you tube and went to their web site. There are hundreds of pictures, so it doesn't really matter that I can't read a word of it. There are some really creative methods of work here and some cool jigs and clamps:

http://www.youtube.com/user/noho91 (http://www.youtube.com/user/noho91)
http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~kouzou/index.html (http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~kouzou/index.html)

[Mike Henderson]

It's not perfect but you can get a computer translation of the web pages at http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

Just stick his URL and indicate translation from Japanese to English. Google offers something similar.

Mike

[Peter Scoma]

The turning video is pretty ingenious. I'll have to remember that if a situation arises in which I need a wooden ball

PS

[jon reedy]

On the website, he's got 3 different types of self-made chucks for the drill lathe. Ingenious.


Check out this page on clamping frames and boxes

http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~kouzou/page103.html