Ornamental Joints - Part II.

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Has anyone given any thought as to how these joints were made? They look as complex as the so called "keyhole" joints!


http://www.eurus.dti.ne.jp/~k-yazawa/jointwork.html

Tony Ward

[labolle]

That is a beautiful chest. I especially like the effect he achieved by leaving the joints proud; however, I can't figure out how he cut the pins and sockets with no straight lines and managed to keep them so uniform. Also, which comes first, the tails or the pins? How do you scribe the curves from one to another?

[ddeen]

Maybe I'm nuts but the joint looks like one of the most straitforward of all of Master Kintaro's posted work. I think the pins were cut first then carved to shape. The picture does show how incredibly accurate his cuts are. There is no slop in those joints. I'm 38 - maybe by the time I'm 80 I can be that good.

[zenwood]

Can someone in Japan please go and sign this guy up for membership. We need him here!!!

Schtoo? Stu in Tokyo? ...

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zenwood

I am happy to issue an invitation to The Master to join this Forum.

I will advise of his response.

Tony Ward

[zenwood]

Oh yeah...he speaks English: I forgot. Woopee!!!!

Thanks Tony!

[Lignum]

Looks great. To my eye it looks like a standard dovetail with just the inside radius chopped out

[TTIT]

I reckon his response to the invitation might be something like the first hand on the left!

[labolle]

The box that close up is from of is "a safe" and has four levers under those joints. I think that the hands with fingers showing 1-5-3-4 must be the combination to open the box. There are only four knobs to pull, so the five can't be a knob number, perhaps they represent how far to pull out each knob to open the box: one finger length for the first knob, five fingers lengths for the second, three for the third, and four for the final...

What do you think? Or do you suppose the hands with fingers are just ornamentation with no particular meaning?

[Lignum]

Like this

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`n this

[labolle]

Very Very cool! Now let's see you manage the sockets.

Really. Very, very impressed here!!!

Sockets?

[Lignum]

Marking the majik sockets (or coloring in or is it coloring it out:confused: )

[HJ0]

This darkside master using drill bits now. Wonder where he keeps his coping/scrollsaw saw lol.

Ok lignum point taken lol

Found this thread last night, but it has no ending, maybe they just gave up.:eek:

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http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...=timberpassion

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthrea...hlight=sangaku

HJ0See they have to cut them like this.

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Response from Master Kintaro Yazawa

I am very surprised so many people in the world are interested in my joints.
I get many mails everyday which are asking to reveal my techniques.
I am glad but I have been worrying what I should do.

At the beginning I thought I could tell the secrets of my work to anyone .
But now I hesitate.
I might be a magician so to speak.
Magicians never disclose their tricks.
If I tell the answer, the magic loses it's fascination.
It might take away one's joy of guessing how the work is done, which may last through his life.

For that reason I am thinking I had better not to join your forum.
I am sorry that I disappoint you.
I think what I should do now is to create further works and show in my web page.

I feel hospitality of the forum members.
I highly value your forum.
Through your forum I became respecting Australian people and Australia as a country of gentlemen.

Please send my best regards to the members.

Kintaro Yazawa

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