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Excellent diagrams on chinese joinery and chinese furniture construction.
This diagram from an article on the Woodworkers Institute website shows how traditional Chinese joinery works There is a great article on the Woodworkers Institute website which I stumbled upon quite...
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Chinese Woodworking: books and resources from around the web
Chinese Woodworking: Stock Preparation This is a nice overview of materials preparation that was posted in the forums at Fine Woodworking. “In some way it is lucky that we met Liu Shifu at the end of...
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Chinese Antique Furniture Joinery
Chinese Antique Furniture Joinery (Note: this article is a reprint which seems to be widely circulated on the internet. I think it is reprinted from the book “Classic Chinese Furniture: Ming and...
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Chai Kai – the art of structural repairs
拆开 (Chāi kāi) essentially means to “take apart” and people often don’t realize that when you restore a piece of Chinese antique furniture, usually in addition to carefully cleaning it, it also usually...
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