2021 furniture challenge, stage 1
this year, as a woodworking teacher, i was given a challenge and gave it in return to students and others in the wider woodworking community. this...
woodworking gifts — christmas 2021 edition
every year, one of the big questions on everyone’s mind as the seasons get snowy and trees start to get used for decoration rather than...
kane tsugi picture-frame
(click here to download the detailed 3d diagrams with measurements.)
one of the most common things i'm asked to demonstrate is traditional japanese joinery – realistically, though, while i...
searching in the garden
as mina rounded the corner on her way home from another unfulfilling day at college, she was confronted by the silhouette of her grandmother bent on the...
shut up and write down
you think you understand and that’s great. but here’s the real question — can you teach it? there is an old saying. “those who can’t do...
just say no
there is a brutal pandemic raging across the world and it appears unstoppable. there is a vaccine but people are obstinately refusing to get inoculated despite the side-effects...
a sliver of time
veneer is a whole different world of woodworking. it feels distantly-related but it avoids so many of the typical parts of working with an organic substance —...
boxing day
let's build a small western-style toolchest. there are many ways to do this and most of them involve complex joinery – usually dovetails and mortise-and-tenons. or metal fasteners. this...
put down the heirloom stepstool
humans are extremists. it’s not a subsection of the population. it’s everyone. we just tend to apply it to different things but we wouldn’t need revolutionary...
unseasonal joinery
it’s fall. there are campfires in the air and leaves make it so difficult to walk without falling i’ve mostly taken to getting my exercise in the middle of...
fallen
https://soundcloud.com/avi-sato/fallen?si=58b177b4fa3e4b5d8052be59e86696b3
reaching for the dawn i suddenly collapse
as i feel the carpet pulled from below my feet
an unexpected noise woke me yet i imagined myself safe
only to search for balance and...
living in the garden
when i was a child, i spent a lot of time in a town whose name struck me as odd — paradise. even at the time, i...