The Japanese Saw

Maker to Maker - Japanese Saw on Make: television from make magazine.

I think the contributors to Make.TV might read this blog. I doubt it, but it was hard not to think it when I saw the most recent episode of Make.TV which featured a segment on the Japanese Saw which Mon had written up only a few weeks ago. Anyways, here's the segment on the beautifully precise tool.

Not really furniture...

So this isn't quite furniture, but it seems that Bay Area based artist Reuben Margolin's kinetic sculptures use a lot of woodwork and similar processes. I just thought this was a perfect example of the power of woodworking as a prototyping language... see the entire make tv episode here : Make.tv:105.