A workbench in your browser. Saw, drill, plane, chisel, carve and finish full-size timber with Western, Japanese and Chinese hand tools, measured to the half millimetre. Cut joints that hold by their shape, or use nails and glue. Every cut is permanent.
The lesson · build a stool in about ten minutes · choose your timber to begin
Mouse and keyboard. Scroll to zoom in for accuracy. Right-drag, or Q and E, to look around.
| Check | Plan | Yours |
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A plan gives you a cut list and a see-through model on the bench. Nobody tells you the order, and nothing is checked until you ask. Or take the empty bench and make something nobody has drawn.
Click a size to drop a 1200 mm length on the bench. Shift-click to pull several.
Western, Japanese and Chinese tools do the same job in different ways: which stroke cuts, how much the blade takes, how fast it goes. Press 2 to 9, or the minus key, to change shelf.
The bench saves itself on this device a moment after every change, and opens again when you come back. A copy is kept online for this browser too, in case the device loses its own. Everything below takes the whole bench: parts, cuts, joints, holes, nails, finishes, glue, paint and carving.