Timber Framers Guild 2007 Western Conference: Main Page

The 21st annual western conference took place at Asilomar in Pacific Grove, CA. I was fortunate to sign up for the pre-conference event which involved building a "machiai" with a group of Japanese carpenters. More information can be found at Timber Framers Guild 2007 Western Conference page.

Additional information:

• Nishiyama's letter to Will Beemer. Letter was translated by Yuka from Hida Tool. Thanks to Will Beemer for sharing it.

Last Update:

2007/05/20 - Added Nishiyama's letter to Will Beemer.

2007/04/16 - Page created by Bob Le.

Click on the photos for more information.

	1 - 2007/04/10 Machiai blueprints (17 photos).
	2 - 2007/04/10 Machiai Workshop - Part 1 (160 photos).
	3 - 2007/04/11 Machiai Workshop - Part 2 (94 photos).
	4 - 2007/04/11 Instruction on tuning the kanna - Japanese wooden hand plane (39 photos).
	5 - 2007/04/12 Machiai Workshop - Part 3 (164 photos).
	6 - 2007/04/12 Sharpening demo (20 photos).
	7 - 2007/04/12 High-speed mortising (66 photos).
	8 - 2007/04/13 Machiai Workshop - Part 4 (196 photos).
	9 - 2007/04/13 Clay wall application (26 photos).
	10 - 2007/04/13 Jay van Arsdale's talks: "Nokogiri: Tools Designed for All the Right Reasons" and "Doing the Work of Joinery" (13 photos).
	11 - 2007/04/13 Nishiyama's toolbox (29 photos).
	12 - 2007/04/13 Printouts of Nishiyama's projects (12 photos).
	13 - 2007/04/14 Maiko Imai's presentation (9 photos).
	14 - 2007/04/14 Maiko Imai's demonstration (237 photos).