THIS. THIS is why I watch your work. You show the mistake. The common, all too easy to make, mistake. And you did it. YOU. The best damn carpenter I ever saw. So now I feel not so bad about a mortice & tenon on the mirror frame I built breaking out at the bottom. Foolish me, I put it way WAY too close to the ends of the frame and made the M&Ts too big. The remaining wood had no hope of supporting that heavy piece of glass. A pair of screws had to be added to make it all hang together. My poor dented carpenter's ego just re-inflated a small amount. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!
Just wanted to say kudos for including your mistake. Too often people (myself) think that everything needs to be done perfectly the first time, get anxious over that and never end up attempting for fear of failure. Video edits have a lot to answer for in that regard.
Sir, your mastery of wood has always impressed me. I work in IT and am absolute idiot working with my hands. I saw this joint nearly a decade ago on clickspring…doing it in wood is on another level. Sir, I bow to your mastery.
To The people that don’t know how hard this is, it’s extremely difficult. What a fantastic job to keep all the faces squares and finish with minimal gaps. Good job brother.
Jess, I love how your brain works. Your such a talented craftsman, keep giving us videos,especially in the new year, Happy and healthy to you and your family!!!
Thank you for taking my suggestion in consideration on trying to make this joint. I've seen this joint many times, seen how it's made but, never tried it myself. Thank you for sharing. Happy New Year you. Cheers :)
Jessie, if you're interested in trying another joint, I'd suggest trying to make Lincoln's dovetail hammer. That is very tricky to do, only seen a few do it correctly without blowing out the joint.
I am really impressed with the joint! Congratulations with the construction. It would show better with contrasting materials. However, a substantial sized mortice and tenon would be my choice of bottom post replacement. But I am not Japanese. I still enjoyed seeing this joint constructed. I've seen this once before and decided not to go that route merely due to the complexity. Thanks.
Love the content, and the explanation of how this joint has real application. How about next the joint you'd use to extend a beam or post for your off-grid house build? And any updates on that design? Hope you're healing up well and looking forward to the new year.
During my day teaching I did a joint challenge where the students picked a joint for me to do and I can remember clearly this one lots of fun and challenging.
Samurai...with many failures one becomes the master. I appreciate you showing us the process (and the trials and tribulations to produce) which you have pushed through to make a joint that is practical in real scenarios. May the New Year bring prosperity, peace and health to you and your family as I await the many videos you plan when you return to your lake oasis. Cheers!
Happy New Year Samurai Carpenter! Thanks for this great demonstration of the impossible joint! I use this joint a lot to explain students the difference between a craftsman's approach and the industrial way of making things. A craftsman like you nears his lines and gently closes into the fit and - as you found out - that takes a lot of time and skill to get it more or less right. The industrial way of thinking is: get it right to fit at the first time, calculating your inaccuracy and make sure it fits the very first time. Can I challenge you to make this joint this way with a Japanese saw and your chisel? I am pretty sure that someone with your skills will get a much better result in a fraction of the time. The reason is that there are many surfaces in complex angles making it very challenging to make the right corrections after the first cuts; it always gets a little bit round and that will show in gaps. Also the piece will only fit in one way - that is annoying. Cheers, up to a great 2025!
not suggesting what you should do here but simply saying that if you stained one of those pieces it would bring out the contrast between the two. Either way.....great projec and thanks for showing your mistake. We are not known by our mistakes but how well we can recover from them.
Man I wish I could change my profession I'm tired of being covered in oil and grease turning wrenches... I would just love to be able to do what you do it's amazing
GURU! And Happy New Year good Sir. I couldn't help but think of your purpleheart and mahogany video with the mortise and tenon and thought "what if Jesse laminated a 5 piece block of alternating PH/MAHOG/PH/MAHOG/PH and made the dovetail out of that, except turning one of them 90° off the other.
Fantastic to see the old Samourai back to showing his actual skills rather than playing developer in the woods just using his knowledge and skills for cosmetic purposes. Thanks and I hope it lasts.
Good first attempt. Now, how DO you get those lengths more accurate. You always do a great job, but this joint is not for the feint of heart. I could never get it done that well but I would certainly be at a loss to figure out how to improve it to get that length problem more trued up.
THIS. THIS is why I watch your work. You show the mistake. The common, all too easy to make, mistake. And you did it. YOU. The best damn carpenter I ever saw. So now I feel not so bad about a mortice & tenon on the mirror frame I built breaking out at the bottom. Foolish me, I put it way WAY too close to the ends of the frame and made the M&Ts too big. The remaining wood had no hope of supporting that heavy piece of glass. A pair of screws had to be added to make it all hang together. My poor dented carpenter's ego just re-inflated a small amount. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!
Just wanted to say kudos for including your mistake. Too often people (myself) think that everything needs to be done perfectly the first time, get anxious over that and never end up attempting for fear of failure. Video edits have a lot to answer for in that regard.
Sir, your mastery of wood has always impressed me. I work in IT and am absolute idiot working with my hands.
I saw this joint nearly a decade ago on clickspring…doing it in wood is on another level. Sir, I bow to your mastery.
To The people that don’t know how hard this is, it’s extremely difficult. What a fantastic job to keep all the faces squares and finish with minimal gaps. Good job brother.
Jess, I love how your brain works. Your such a talented craftsman, keep giving us videos,especially in the new year, Happy and healthy to you and your family!!!
You are a true artist with wood
Great Work , The info about supporting older structures in this day of challenges. Thanks for sharing
Nice job! Good to see even the Samurai Master makes mistakes on these things; hard to keep track of everything in the mind.
Nice work on that complex DT joint Jessie! HNY to you & your family! 💥💥👍👍
Thank you for taking my suggestion in consideration on trying to make this joint. I've seen this joint many times, seen how it's made but, never tried it myself. Thank you for sharing. Happy New Year you. Cheers :)
Jessie, if you're interested in trying another joint, I'd suggest trying to make Lincoln's dovetail hammer. That is very tricky to do, only seen a few do it correctly without blowing out the joint.
Wow. Now that is impressive for a first attempt. Well done indeed.
I am really impressed with the joint! Congratulations with the construction. It would show better with contrasting materials. However, a substantial sized mortice and tenon would be my choice of bottom post replacement. But I am not Japanese. I still enjoyed seeing this joint constructed. I've seen this once before and decided not to go that route merely due to the complexity. Thanks.
Killing it with these videos
I feel smarter just watching this. Good way to start 2025!
Love the content, and the explanation of how this joint has real application. How about next the joint you'd use to extend a beam or post for your off-grid house build? And any updates on that design?
Hope you're healing up well and looking forward to the new year.
During my day teaching I did a joint challenge where the students picked a joint for me to do and I can remember clearly this one lots of fun and challenging.
Samurai...with many failures one becomes the master. I appreciate you showing us the process (and the trials and tribulations to produce) which you have pushed through to make a joint that is practical in real scenarios. May the New Year bring prosperity, peace and health to you and your family as I await the many videos you plan when you return to your lake oasis. Cheers!
Learn by doing. Well done Samurai 👍
Awesome work 🇨🇦
Happy New Year Samurai Carpenter! Thanks for this great demonstration of the impossible joint! I use this joint a lot to explain students the difference between a craftsman's approach and the industrial way of making things. A craftsman like you nears his lines and gently closes into the fit and - as you found out - that takes a lot of time and skill to get it more or less right.
The industrial way of thinking is: get it right to fit at the first time, calculating your inaccuracy and make sure it fits the very first time. Can I challenge you to make this joint this way with a Japanese saw and your chisel? I am pretty sure that someone with your skills will get a much better result in a fraction of the time.
The reason is that there are many surfaces in complex angles making it very challenging to make the right corrections after the first cuts; it always gets a little bit round and that will show in gaps. Also the piece will only fit in one way - that is annoying. Cheers, up to a great 2025!
Very cool. Nice work! And happy New Year!
not suggesting what you should do here but simply saying that if you stained one of those pieces it would bring out the contrast between the two. Either way.....great projec and thanks for showing your mistake. We are not known by our mistakes but how well we can recover from them.
Excellent work. Thanks for sharing
Very nice job looking very good!!!👍👌💯 And a happy, healthy new year tot you and your familie!!!🍾🥂🎉
Happy New year, to you and the family. Stay safe and well. God bless.
Man I wish I could change my profession I'm tired of being covered in oil and grease turning wrenches... I would just love to be able to do what you do it's amazing
Many thanks dude, any chance you can show a housing joint with through tenons, like you see on an internal shelf in a case? Thanks
GURU! And Happy New Year good Sir.
I couldn't help but think of your purpleheart and mahogany video with the mortise and tenon and thought "what if Jesse laminated a 5 piece block of alternating PH/MAHOG/PH/MAHOG/PH and made the dovetail out of that, except turning one of them 90° off the other.
Great stuff, made me laugh knowing you are human too and make mistakes. Great work.
Very nice work
Fantastic to see the old Samourai back to showing his actual skills rather than playing developer in the woods just using his knowledge and skills for cosmetic purposes. Thanks and I hope it lasts.
Nice work Sensei👊
Aaaa, using the tool from Alex Steel. Good jobb Sensei!
Love it so much keep it up as always 💘
🎉 Happy New Year
Happy New Year 🎆
How cool would that be for accents on the bottom of table legs
Good first attempt. Now, how DO you get those lengths more accurate. You always do a great job, but this joint is not for the feint of heart. I could never get it done that well but I would certainly be at a loss to figure out how to improve it to get that length problem more trued up.
Amazing mate.
Is that port orford cedar?
Amazing sir!
Finally. Back to where you came from. Maybe consider some speed up and hold paid classes for people specially interested.
Smoked that joint?
Good video. I feel like younger Jesse would have made the cuts by hand as an extra flex.
Fuckin awesome Jesse! Keep up the inspiring videos 👍🏼
Looking a bit gray my guy. It looks good
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Jesse, that's what we call "a brain 🧠 fart💨" but don't worry too much as we all have them, moreover as we get older 😂🤣🤭
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You could go into the business of making wooden puzzles of various kinds.
Dang hair long af these days🤣🤣
Happy New Year!!
Looking like Terry Silver more and more. Wah saaaaaaaaa.
I was going to say this 😂
With that haircut you remind me of terry silver from karate kid lmao
Rocking that man bun like no care in world
Fair play, but the best looking it is not, by quite some margin!
Sharper pencil next time
Audio is really bad
You're not wrong, Walter...
Don't think your hart is in these videos anymore
Show us then your heart?