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Timber Framers Guild 2007 Western Conference: Machiai Workshop - 2007/04/11

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Session highlights:

1
2
3, 4, 5
6, 7
8, 9, 10, 11, 12
13, 14 - Nishiyama demonstrating mortising technique.
15, 16, 17, 18
19, 20, 21, 22
23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 - Senga's planing demonstration.
29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34
35, 36, 37, 38
39
40, 41, 42, 43
44
45
46
47
48
49, 50, 51
52, 53
54, 55, 56
57, 58
59
60 - Nihiyama's Funahiro Tensui on the left, Bob's on the right. He has concerns that my plane is single bladed but dai is not ichimai.
61 - Comparison of ichimai (left) to a regular dai. Note the throat angle on the ichimai. It's upposed to help prevent tearout.
62, 63
64
65, 66, 67 - Nishiyama test driving Bob's Tsunesaburo Kotobuki.
68
69, 70 - "Blade sharpening is not too bad. Dai conditioning needs a bit more work!"
71, 72 - Nishiyama's chamfer plane, next to Bob's Daishin chamfer plane.
73, 74, 75 - Just as for all of his planes, Nishiyama made the dai himself.
76 - Nishiyama testdriving Jeremiah's Ishihisa smoother. Full width shaving with just one hand.
77, 78 - Two fingers, while talking!
79, 80, 81, 82, 83 - Finally, one finger!!!
84
85, 86 - Nishiyama building the roof.
87
88, 89, 90
91, 92
93, 94