組手 Japanese-modern · No screws · Flat-pack
Furniture that holds
itself together.
Woodworking plans for pieces joined with wedged tenons instead of hardware. Ordinary lumber off the big-box rack, tools you likely already own, and a joint you can see.
The wedge sits a hair inside the leg face. Driving it down pulls the shoulder tight.
約束 Every plan, three promises
Ordinary lumber
A few boards off the big-box shelf. No exotic species, no hardwood dealer, no machines.
Basic tools
Circular saw, drill, a sharp chisel, clamps. No jointer, planer, router, or table saw.
Honest joinery
Wedged through-tenons you can see. The joint isn't hidden — the joint is the design.
予定 What's coming
Build plans
Measured drawings with joinery detail, cut sequence, and an interactive cut list that recalculates when you change the dimensions to fit your room.
Finished pieces
A small number of built-to-order pieces, charred and finished — local pickup in Colorado to start.
Notes from the shop
What held, what split, and the dimensions that actually worked — written after the piece was built, not before.
第一号 First plan · being built
The Kumiki Bench
組み木 — interlocking wood
A low bench held together by two wedged through-tenons — no screws, no hardware. It knocks flat when you move.
Being built and tested here before the plan goes on sale. Nothing gets listed until it's been cut, fitted, and sat on first — real dimensions and real lumber cost get published once the piece exists, not before.
先行 Before it's listed
Get the first plan free.
The Kumiki Bench plan goes out free to everyone on this list the day it's finished — full illustrated build, cut list, and the calculator that resizes it to your dimensions.
One builder, occasional emails, unsubscribe anytime.
工房より From the shop
One builder, one garage.
Risu Joinery is a one-person shop in Colorado built around Japanese joinery — furniture that holds together with wedged tenons and interlocking joints instead of screws.
Risu (リス) means squirrel. A builder that needs no hardware, wastes nothing, and works with what's on hand.
Plans are drawn only after the piece has actually been built. Every dimension in a Risu plan came off real wood in a real shop, not out of a spreadsheet.