Thread: Tea house of sticks

Tea

What does the beer one look like?

Phil

Stow that, I have enough problems solving Burr Puzzles!

I like the idea. I am sure some people would love it.

When I drink tea I am normally surrounded by wood and covered in shavings

I guess this is for people more at peace with the world than I am.

Originally Posted by Phil Hansen

Tea

What does the beer one look like?

Phil

A Castle.

Regards

Originally Posted by Phil Hansen

Tea

What does the beer one look like?

Phil

More Japanese woodwork but a bit bigger than the Tea house of sticks. These are man sized (beer sized if you like) gates on the Imperial gardens. Kept the neighbours out for a while. Hefty job building them. The baulks of timer are humungous and the work in strapping and through riveting must have taken a day or two. The hinges are like the rudder gudgeons on a supertanker.

Originally Posted by Doggie

Saw this while wandering through a department store in the Ginza on Monday. Apparently you buy one to install in your yard at home, put it together from instructions and then sit in it to drink tea. The "artist" who designed it was there and offered a number of designs for the same purpose. Apart from the obvious artistic merit and woodworking skill in the concept, it looked to me as if it had to be a computer design job because of the complexity. I noticed many of the components were numbered on the ends to aid construction. Amazing bit of woodwork though! Here's a couple of pics. One of the whole show and one of a typical joint.

I know, you put a tarp over the top.

Its a Japanese tent.

Think I'll stick with my Australian tent.

Originally Posted by a duke

a castle.

Regards

and
Cheers!
Phil

Ikea could do that in a flat pack....

Originally Posted by Chris Parks

Ikea could do that in a flat pack....

Imagine the phone help line. Most of their customers have trouble turning the screwdriver the right way.

It's an impressive piece of art. I also like the doors in the photos above. The new light brown one uses techniques that are almost identical to a shoji.

Originally Posted by Evanism

Imagine the phone help line. Most of their customers have trouble turning the screwdriver the right way.

It's an impressive piece of art. I also like the doors in the photos above. The new light brown one uses techniques that are almost identical to a shoji.

Have'nt seen any mitre joints yet anywhere. Staying in a ryokan (Japanese inn) in Takayama and taking heaps of woodworking pics. Heaps of very old wooden houses. Will post some tonight. Funny you mention that new gate on the Imperial gardens. On closer examination I found two loose nuts on the hinge straps.

Originally Posted by Doggie

Have'nt seen any mitre joints yet anywhere. Staying in a ryokan (Japanese inn) in Takayama and taking heaps of woodworking pics. Heaps of very old wooden houses. Will post some tonight. Funny you mention that new gate on the Imperial gardens. On closer examination I found two loose nuts on the hinge straps.

Notice that each of the cross beams had FOUR mortises? Now that would take skill.

Originally Posted by Evanism

Notice that each of the cross beams had FOUR mortises? Now that would take skill.

Took some pics of internal decoration details in our inn plus the internal structure of a 18th century rich merchants house (huge). Everything seems to be "Japanese cypress" in one form or another. The mountains are full of it around here. It looks and smells just like Cypress pine so probably similar to what we get. Merchants house main beams were about 500mm by 300mm and were installed with a distinct upward bow. Nearly all cracked with the grain I guess through age (200 years or so), earthquakes and such.

If you get the chance, go to Kawagoe, and have a look at the blade shop there, for chisels, planes etc. Lots of other stuff to see there, as well.

Originally Posted by Evanism

Now that would take skill.

Few more pics of general woodwork I've come across in Japan. Ancient and modern. The thatched roof on the ancientfarm houses has to bear two or three metres of snow and survive earthquakes (and three or four or more hundred years - give or take of time) so lash it up tight boys. The froes (shingle and paling splitting) in the building tool pic were labelled "hatchets" and I saw them in old tool displays everywhere. It must be a more ancient tool than our European heritage (couple of thousand years) suggests. I thought the full sized motorbike carving was OK but not as good as the one on the forum (Aerial?) a few months ago. The gate structure/sculpture outside Kanazawa station is amazing. Not only for its size but the design. Sure is a lot of wood up here in the hills.