Mr. Chickadee
Our channel is a video diary of our new lives on the homestead.
Making a cozy black walnut kotatsu (japanese low heated table) using traditional hand tools.
Mr Chickadee online Japanese timber framing course
Forging special chisels for a Japanese temple builder.
Hand forged wrought iron chisels (for sale)
How to replace a T shovel handle
Making a wildwood broom with hickory bark braid
Bench Grafting fruit trees
Building a Hobbit style root cellar part V
Making a steam bent firewood carrier with hand tools from green wood
Making a post and rung chair from green wood with hand tools
Floating top cherry dining table with sliding dovetail battens and wedged tenon joinery.
Raising day from our May 2022 Timber Frame Class
Making a Japanese timber frame parallel chord truss with curvy timbers.
Scribing and plumbing timber frame pavillion posts.
Hand splitting and sculpting large plinth stones for timber frame foundation
Cherry wood Nakashima style coffee table made with hand tools and joinery.
Making a saw buck and cutting firewood with hand tools
Small Masonry Heater for our timberframe
Hand made double insulated wooden casement windows for our timber frame.
Japanese timber frame house extension: interior removable walls.
Burned board and batten siding. Yakisugi (焼杉) Yakimatsu (焼松)
Anchoring timbers to stone: ancient technique with modern twist for building codes/extreme winds.
Japanese timber frame home extension: Enclosing the frame using larsen trusses and hand tools.
Raising our Japanese timber frame, no machines, just one mans hands, ASMR
Preparations for raising day: Japanese style timber frame (Woodworking ASMR)
Timberframe spline joint: how to make a complex and strong Japanese spline joint (Woodworking ASMR)
Japanese Timberframe Part I Stones and Sills
Building a Hobbit style root cellar Part IV
Building a Hobbit style root cellar with stone Part III
Building a Hobbit style root cellar with stone Part II