Woodworking Events

Mokuchi offers woodworking events – including demonstrations and classes. These can be in educational institutions or as private sessions. Demonstrations and classes are customized to include in-depth or high level instruction on a range of topics such as:

• Overview of Japanese Woodworking – Hand tools, layout, joinery and finish planning
• Sharpening with man made and natural Japanese water stones
• Set up and use of the Japanese block plane (ko-ganna)
• Set up and use of the Japanese finishing plane (hira-ganna)
• Japanese joinery
• Basic shoji (paper backed screen) building
• Japanese door making
• Japanese woodworking as it applies to furniture making
• Japanese timber framing
• Sumitsubo and Sumi layout
• Plane making