Japanese Woodworking and Timber frame Workshops
Below you will find all of our upcoming Japanese woodworking bootcamps, timber frame workshops, woodworking master classes, and festival events. We welcome nearly all ages and all experience levels. Our teaching philosophy is simple: disciplined but fun, hands-on and in-person, practice and mistakes yield growth. Come learn and build!
3 Day Workshop
$900 + Materials
Learn mortise and tenon Japanese joinery while building a set of sawhorses or trestle table frame.
7 Day Workshop, Meals Provided
$2000 ($1800 Discounted through November 22, 2025)
Participate in a full build, timber frame construction project learning a broad range of joinery skills.
6 Day Workshop, Meals Included
$1410 ($1269 Early Bird Price Through 1/24/26)
Learn fundamentals of Japanese tools with sharpening, chisel set up, kanna set up, sawing, mortise and tenon drills, basic layout.
4 Day Workshop, Materials and Meals Included
$940 ($846 Early Bird Price Through 1/31/26)
Apply Japanese joinery and layout techniques to build an elegant tool box.
3 Day Workshop, Meals Included
$705 ($634.5 Early Bird Price Through 2/4/26)
Chainsaw and felling skills, hewing, material prep and center line layout of curved beams.
3 Day Workshop, Meals Included
$705 ($634.5 Early Bird Price Through 2/7/26)
Timber scribing to stones and vertical layout for Japanese structures.
6 Day Workshop, Meals Included
$1410 ($1269 Early Bird Price Through 3/21/26)
Learn fundamentals of Japanese tools with sharpening, chisel set up, kanna set up, sawing, mortise and tenon drills, basic layout.
10 Day Workshop, Meals Included
$2350 ($2115 Early Bird Price Through 3/28/26)
Intensive full build project to cut and raise a small cabin in the style of a Japanese traditional farmhouse, or minka!
4 Day Workshop, Meals Included
$940 ($846 Early Bird Price Through 4/28/26)
Advance joinery instruction to layout and cutting of the kanawa tsugi and shachi sen tsugi joints.
6 Day Workshop, Meals Included
$1410 ($1269 Early Bird Price Through 6/26/26)
Learn fundamentals of Japanese tools with sharpening, chisel set up, kanna set up, sawing, mortise and tenon drills, basic layout.
Do you have other ideas or suggested times for workshops? Please fill out the form below.
“At first only your mom won’t notice the mistakes, eventually regular people won’t notice them, and then at some point fellow woodworkers may miss them. We all make mistakes, that’s how we learn and grow.”
