How to fasten pieces of wood without nails, screws and glue

Surely you know about the detachable connections of timber ends, "swallowtail". A ancient Japanese masters were known hundreds of ways fasteners. Modern carpenter studied them, did SIFCO and posted on Twitter. At the moment it opened more than 80 methods.

About the coolest joiners and carpenters say that they are able to build a house without a single nail. Japanese artisans, even amateurs, just one of them.

Several years ago, a young worker automotive industry, with enthusiasm joineryAt the hands of a book describing the traditional Japanese techniques of working with wood. Its very dragged describe compounds parts without the use of nails, screws and glue. He wanted to learn to do well. Here are just schemes for the production of fasteners in the book was not. Then the guy decided to paint them myself.

Modeling and animation of parts he used the free service Fusion-360. The result obtained in SIFCO Japanese translated and posted on the Twitter account under the name The Joinery. Almost a year the young carpenter visualized 85 different ways of detachable joints.

A variety of mounts is really amazing. With their help you can make, in principle, anything - a stool, sofa, table and so on. The main thing - to have a direct hand and good, desirable electric tool.

But even if you have manual labor is not inspiring, you will probably enjoy watching gifok. Then, with what grace parts engage with each other, it is mesmerizing.