Daiku Dojo Classes
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| | - | 2010/08/21-2010/12/18 Every Saturday from 8am-12pm, Jay van Arsdale teaches Traditional Japanese Hand Tools & Joinery I. Every Sunday from 8:30am-12:30pm, Jay teaches Traditional Hand Tools & Joinery II, Small Yard and Garden Structures, and Special Projects. See the Laney College Fall 2010 Class Schedule. |
| | - | 2010/08/23-2010/12/17 Every Sunday from 11am-3pm, Jay van Arsdale teaches Joinery Structures for Landscape Horticulture Construction. See the Merritt College Fall 2010 Class Schedule. |
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Jay van Arsdale teaches Japanese woodworking classes at Laney College, Merritt College, and at his shop. His classes
cover traditional Japanese woodworking tools and joinery. Basic tools include noko-giri (saws,) nomi (chisels,)
kanna (planes,) sumi-sashi (layout pens) and sashigane (squares.) In the introductory classes Jay also covers sharpening.
A lot of sharpening. After you've sharpened you tools you can enjoy the hands-on joinery work that's a joy to look
at and do, that function as well as you can ask for.
Laney College Fall and Spring Semesters Class Schedule: Saturdays 8am-12pm for introductory class, Sunday 8:30am-12:30pm for advanced classes. To enroll in classes go
to Peralta Colleges and follow the direction for new students. The following classes are available:
- Class Code 210A - Traditional Japanese Hand Tools and Joinery I (for beginners)
- Class Code 210B - Traditional Japanese Hand Tools and Joinery II (for advanced students)
- Class Code 210D - Small Yard and Garden Structures (for advanced students)
- Class Code 200 - Special Projects Laboratory (for advanced students)
Merritt College Fall and Spring Semesters Class Schedule: Sunday 11am-3pm. To enroll in classes go
to Peralta Colleges and follow the direction for new students. The following class is available:
- Class Code 48PH - Joinery Structures for Landscape Horticulture Construction
Highlights From Class
- Japanese Gate (community project) - August 26, 2006, Completed on September 16, 2007.
- Making a Dai (Japanese Wooden Plane Body) - April 01, 08 of 2006
- Building Workbenches - January 14, 21, 28, February 04, 11 of 2006
- Toolboxes and Tool Storage - January 28, 2006
- Japanese Hand Tools - January 28, 2006
Class Photo Journal
- 2009/08/30 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Tansu Joinery.
- 2009/02/08 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Dovetailed Through Mortise and Tenon Joinery.
- 2009/02/01 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Natural Waterstone Workshop With Alex Gilmore.
- 2009/01/19 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Dovetailed Half Lap Joinery.
- 2008/07/31 - Summer Class: Designing, Building, and Installing Shoji - 2008/06/24 through 2008/07/31.
- 2008/05/24 - Japanese Hand Tools I Class: Last day of Spring 2008 semester.
- 2008/03/01 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Sliding dovetail joint with floating dovetail key.
- 2008/02/23 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Making bird's mouth joinery.
- 2008/01/26 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Making sliding dovetail joinery.
- 2007/10/13 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Building mock-ups of Nakashima's Conoid chair.
- 2007/09/16 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Japanese Gate Project (Part 33).
- 2007/09/09 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Japanese Gate Project (Part 32).
- 2007/08/11 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Japanese Gate Project (Part 31).
- 2007/07/28 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Japanese Gate Project (Part 30).
- 2007/07/21 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Japanese Gate Project (Part 29).
- 2007/07/07 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Japanese Gate Project (Part 28).
- 2007/07/01 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Japanese Gate Project (Part 27).
- 2007/06/22 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Japanese Gate Project (Part 26) - Painting end grains and chamfers, test fitting of joints.
- 2007/05/19 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Japanese Gate Project (Part 25) - Test fitting doors, ridge beam carving, more mortise and tenon works.
- 2007/05/12 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Japanese Gate Project (Part 24) - Completely dismantled gate, roof material preparation.
- 2007/05/05 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Japanese Gate Project (Part 23) - End cap carving, building doors and wall panels, dismantling rafters.
- 2007/04/28 - Japanese Hand Tools I Class: Joinery.
- 2007/04/28 - Japanese Hand Tools II Class: Japanese Gate Project (Part 22) - Fitting rafters, building doors.
- 2007/04/21 - Japanese Hand Tools I Class: Student photos.
- 2007/04/21 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 21) - Fitting rafters, building doors.
- 2007/03/31 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 20) - Gate assembly.
- 2007/03/24 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 19) - Joinery exercise from Jay's morning introductory class
- 2007/03/17 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 18) - Gate assembly.
- 2007/03/10 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 17) -
- 2007/03/03 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 16) -
- 2007/02/24 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 15) -
- 2007/02/10 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 14) - Carving completed, painting began.
- 2007/02/03 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 13) - Carving, big joints.
- 2007/01/27 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 12) - Rafter carving continues, cutting big tenons, Jay's saw sharpening demo.
- 2007/01/20 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 11) - Workbench assembly, rafter carving, more joinery.
- 2007/01/13 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 10) - Big joints & secret of gooseneck joint.
- 2006/12/16 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 9) - Layout work and cutting of big joints.
- 2006/12/09 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 8) - Post and beam mortise/tenon, carving cloud pattern on rafters, more mockup joinery.
- 2006/12/02 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 7) - Post and beam joinery, lots of sawing and chopping.
- 2006/11/18 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 6) - Work on ridge beam, rafters with slanted dovetails, and prototype of gooseneck joint.
- 2006/11/11 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 5) - Layout on paper.
- 2006/11/04 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 4) - Timber dimensioning.
- 2006/10/28 - Joinery works, wooden trestles.
- 2006/10/21 - Joinery works and making marking gauges.
- 2006/10/14 - Curved plane demonstration and more yari ganna demonstration.
- 2006/10/07 - Yari ganna demonstration, Herman's coopered-bottom chair.
- 2006/09/30 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 3) - Joint selections for gate.
- 2006/09/18 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 2) - Life-sized Mockup
- 2006/09/09 - Joinery project: Kiguchi-ari.
- 2006/08/26 - Japanese Gate Project (Part 1)
- 2006/05/20 - Last day of class for Spring semester (see also Party at Jay's workshop)
- 2006/05/13
- 2006/05/06
- 2006/04/29 - Preparation for Nikkei Matsuri Festival
- 2006/04/22 - Tuning Katsusaburo block planes
- 2006/04/01, 04/8 - Making a Dai
- 2006/03/25
- 2006/03/18
- 2006/03/11
- 2006/01/21, 01/28, 02/04, 02/11 - Building Workbenches
