Kenji Watanabe
@kenjiwatanabe
Woodworker & furniture maker. Joinery techniques, shop tours, tool reviews, and full project builds from raw lumber to finished piece.
June 21, 2026
Kyoto, Japan
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Steam bending experiment. Pushing red oak into curves it was not expecting.

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Built something cool this weekend. Sharing the code and the thought process behind it.

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Hand plane sharpening technique. The feeling of a perfectly tuned blade.

Workshop safety. The injuries that humbled me and the rules I never break.

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Japanese joinery basics: Mortise and tenon without any metal fasteners.

Commission spotlight: A dining table for 12 in solid cherry.

Debugging session that took 4 hours. The fix was one line. Classic.

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Shop tour update. New bandsaw and dust collection system installed.

Side project update: It's alive. Here's the demo and what I learned building it.

The chisel set every beginner needs. You do not need 30 chisels to start.

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Woodworker & furniture maker. Joinery techniques, shop tours, tool reviews, and full project builds from raw lumber to finished piece.

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