Kenji's Workshop

Walk into any big-box store and you'll find particle board furniture held together with cam locks and prayers. It's designed to last five years, maybe ten if you're lucky.

Meanwhile, Japanese temples built 1,300 years ago are still standing. Chinese furniture from the Ming Dynasty still has joints so tight you can't slide a piece of paper between them. Korean chests built for royalty still open and close as smoothly as the day they were made.

The difference isn't the wood. It's the knowledge. And that knowledge has been disappearing for generations.

This book brings it back. 100 techniques, from reading grain to cutting joints that lock without glue, distilled from centuries of Eastern mastery into one illustrated guide you can use in your workshop today.