Construction
The Workbench
Esho Funi Butsudans are made of responsibly harvested woods, namely: poplar, pine, hemlock, alder and cedar.
- No nails, no screws
- Handmade using traditional Japanese handtools and construction techniques
- Original designs
New York
- Beauty in simplicity
- One board, One butsudan
- No two butsudans alike
Day 2: Pieces cut to size and planed smoothe
Day 1: Planing the boards smoothe
Day 3: walnut pins
Unfinished doors and kumiko
Poplar panel
Day 1: Pieces dimensioned
Day4: drawer completed
Day 5: pieces sanded smooth/clear-coated
Measuring/cutting kumiko
Day 3: Doors completed
Solid poplar board
Day 2: rough fitting
Walnut
Simple Door construction, showing hand-cut tenons and mortises
Poplar
Workbench
Pieces of Body Style B
Lattice Doors (bamboo and woven poplar)
Tenon detail on Belt
Construction of Simple doors with panel
Studio
Detail of shoulder construction, hand-cut tenons and mortises
Construction of Body Style C with Panel Doors in Maple
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