Building a Bench Japanese Style Woodworking

In this project I design and build a bench incorporating Japanese style architecture, as well as in lay some bow ties, butterflies along a crack I carve as a decorative feature. Depending on how you argue the semantics of what joinery is, their are 5 or 6 different types of joinery in this project. Here are some of the tools I used to build this project. (Affiliate Links) Tracing Paper Block Plane Mallet Wood Glue h