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The Japanese art of tsugite, or wood joinery, goes back more than a millennium. As still practiced today, it involves no nails, screws, or adhesives at all, yet it can be used to put up whole buildings — as well as to disassemble them with relative ease.

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Handmade furniture & homewares on Instagram: "Trying my hand at some Japanese joinery. I needed a long piece of timber and I only had two short pieces so I decided to join the two using a fancy scarf joint. I believe this one is called a tabled vee’d scarf with a wedge? Correct me if I’m wrong. Anyway, the joint seems to work and with glue added it won’t ever come apart! 

Joints like these are commonly used in traditional Japanese timber framed houses. It’s surprisingly difficult to get these joints super tight. I have so much respect for the Japanese carpenters who do these everyday! 

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Handmade furniture & homewares on Instagram: "Trying my hand at some Japanese joinery. I needed a long piece of timber and I only had two short pieces so I decided to join the two using a fancy scarf joint. I believe this one is called a tabled vee’d scarf with a wedge? Correct me if I’m wrong. Anyway, the joint seems to work and with glue added it won’t ever come apart! Joints like these are commonly used in traditional Japanese timber framed houses. It’s surprisingly difficult to get…

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