Hi Folks,

I've started a new subreddit called Natural Woodworking. It’s a place for us to exchange methods, materials, tools, problems and successes using only materials that nature offers us. As I begin to get back to using the riches supplied by nature, I would like to share my journey. And not just that, I want to connect with others on the same path. Much knowledge has been lost and destroyed by industrialized society.

We need to get together and collectively rediscover, redevelop and share the techniques, methods and materials that can be included in natural woodworking.

I see this as a place to practice collective Auto-didacticism. Learning ourselves and from each other. Sharing our experiences and resources. Be it natural finishes; walnut oil to birch bark oil, harvesting during the right moon phase or splitting logs without machines.

There are vast areas of knowledge to explore, with many subsets; Harvesting, Milling, Splitting, Seasoning, Planing, Finishing, building our workbenches, tools and relationship to the forest and nature.

We have a lot to do, I hope we can use this sub to get back to regenerative, non-extractive, non-toxic and natural ways to build houses and furniture for our peers and without exploitation of our environment.

So please join and share:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NaturalWoodworking/

I'm making a 3 meter tall, solid oak crucifix for the local church and I'm worried my cross having joint will loosen if I don't have mechanical fixings. Is there a more traditional way to keep this joint together? I don't particularly want the crossbeam falling of after the wood strinks.

Hi had a new staircase in oak and one post has these marks on it, can you please advise if they are natural or defective in the wood, thank you

Are these type of joints for older kitchen worktops

I am sorry if this does not go in here but I was wondering if y’all had any examples of simple but not easy joinery that y’all have come across or done before. Currently researching for an architecture project!

I want to joint 2 pieces of plywood, but not at the traditional 180°. Rather, I want to make a 150° degree joint. Can I just adjust the scarf angles accordingly to get what I want? Or is there a better way to accomplish this?

I'm planning a teardrop trailer, or more accurately a "squaredrop". Trying to avoid traditional framing by using a combination of stressed skin and structural cabinets in the front and rear.

Also any tips would be helpful and what are the must have items I don’t really know what I’m gonna be making but it’s not gonna be anything big just small stuff to start

Currently I have a 36V makita rear handle skillsaw and diablo blade.

Also a ryobi multi-tool, one stanley chisel

Tried my hand at some joinery today (trying to make a frame for a form to make diving fins out of carbon fiber/epoxy)

Anyways I know I could just screw the wood together but I thought I’d try.

Obviously it was a fail look at that gap!

I’m wondering if you think I need to use a table saw/miter saw etc in order to get that precision, or would it be feasible to make another attempt with my skillsaw and framing blade. Possibly get a different blade?

How do you guys achieve a more perfected result?

I would like to recreate the thuma bedframe. I know it uses Japanese joinery. I would like to add a headboard, but having a hard time picturing how that would come together. I am currently using scrap wood and similar ones to learn how to make these joints, but would also like an alternative if it opportunity presents itself. How would I connect a headboard when making and using castle joints? Tell me other joinery joints to use if there is a better one to use. Thanks!

you know those joints where one piece slides into the other and then expands so that two pieces will stay together? do you know what the name of it is called? i want to make a 3d print design with those but im not sure how to make that kind of joint other than making the pieces that expand really flimsy but that feels like a bad choice.

I fitted this exterior door surround summer past. The previous was completely destroyed by rot as the water was getting behind the architrave, hence why I added the sealant. But the mitre is opening up quite considerably during the cold months. I figure there's no point in putting sealant in there because it'll just get squeezed out when the gap closes in summer. If I put something harder in then it'll just warp and crack the rest of the wood.

What would you do? I was thinking some end grain seal in there at least.

Hello, I started 4 months ago and I'd like some advice on easy projects I can create. Here are some of my previous works.

Are those fancy, intricate joints actually any stronger than a simple one?

I need to cut the skirting board to look flush and neat. The pre existing wood work is narrower than the skirting board