Title: Nice Pictures-Bad Guide
Product review: Everyone I know that does Asian timber framing or furniture has this book...so it is not a bad book, just not the book most really use most of the time. I share it as a "picture book," for layfolk that just want to look at nice photography. Most in the craft of cutting Asian joinery, (that don't speak/read the languages,) us "Wood Joints in Classical Japanese Architecture," by Torashichi Sumiyoshi and Gengo Matsui. This is an English language cut manual of many of the Asian, and of course Japanese, joinery that you find in the architecture and furniture of those regions. Any timber wright would benefit from this book in there library.
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