r/ArtisanVideos • u/freerider • Jun 13 '22

Wood Crafts Making a Japanese timber frame parallel chord truss with curvy timbers [14:50]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keR6MfbDHNc
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u/zyzzogeton Jun 13 '22

I do love watching Japanese Joinery techniques, but that jump at 10:38 from the curved log, to perfectly flat timbers with a different technique felt very /r/restofthefuckingowl until I saw that it was a different piece of the structure about a minute later.

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u/SeagraveHolmes Jun 13 '22

Same!! I was like did we just skip 9 hours of sawing and planing?

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u/Sketch3000 Jun 14 '22

He normally has captions that explain what’s going on, but this video didn’t include captions.

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u/GraemeWoller Jun 13 '22

Ah, Mr. Chickadee, how your videos calm my soul.

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u/curiot Jun 13 '22

I’d love to see mr chickadee and Paul Sellers chat about woodworking over a beer

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u/uncivlengr Jun 13 '22

He had an interesting interview type thing here.

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u/Jealous_Sky_7941 Jun 14 '22

Mr. Chickadee is the man! Dresses kinda funny, but his skills and videos are on point!