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2. Kumiko (woodworking) - Wikipedia

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   Method. Thinly slit wooden pieces are grooved, punched and mortised, and then fitted individually using a plane, saw, chisel and other tools to make fine adjustments. The technique was developed in Japan in the Asuka Era (600–700 AD). [ 2][ 1] Kumiko panels slot together and remain in place through pressure alone, and that pressure is ...

3. Japanese carpentry - Wikipedia

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   Wagoya type traditional roof framing, a post-and-lintel type of framing. Yogoya type traditional roof framing, called western style. Japanese carpentry was developed more than a millennium ago that is known for its ability to create everything from temples to houses to tea houses to furniture by wood with the use of few nails.

4. Woodworking - Wikipedia

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   Electric plug-in tablesaw for woodworking. A table saw is intended to make long precise cuts along the grain pattern of the board known as rip cuts. Most table saws offer the option of a beveled rip cut. [20] Thickness planer A thickness planer is used to smooth the surface of a board and make it the exact thickness across the entire board. [20 ...

5. Marquetry - Wikipedia

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   Marquetry. Tilt-top table veneered in a parquetry pattern by Isaac Leonard Wise, circa 1934. Marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie; from the French marqueter, to variegate) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns or designs. The technique may be applied to case furniture or even seat ...

6. Chinese furniture - Wikipedia

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   Classic Chinese furniture is typically made of a class of hardwoods, known collectively as "rosewood" (紅木, literally "red wood"). These woods are denser than water, fine grained, and high in oils and resins. These properties make them dimensionally stable, hardwearing, rot and insect resistant, and when new, highly fragrant.

7. Quarter sawing - Wikipedia

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   A method for logs over 19 in (48 cm) Quarter sawing or quartersawing is a woodworking process that produces quarter-sawn or quarter-cut boards in the rip cutting of logs into lumber. The resulting lumber can also be called radially-sawn or simply quartered. There is widespread confusion between the terms rift sawn and quarter sawn with the ...