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The most satisfying thing you’ll see today, these 4 gifs depicting Japanese wood joinery will hold your attention for hours

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by Happy

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by Happy

The art of Japanese joinery stands apart from the rest of the world’s woodworking with one simple fact: they don’t use any nails.

Aside from wood itself, nails and screws have pretty much been the backbone of woodworking for as long as the practice has been around. Japanese carpenters instead utilise mind-blowing engineering and precise physicality to join two or more pieces of wood.

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In what has been a closely guarded secret for centuries, one man is finally illustrating the beautiful techniques behind ancient Japanese wood joinery.

The reason it has been so hard to decode Japanese wood joinery is that, while these fusions may seem complicated when viewed as 3D models, once they are joined together it’s impossible to tell what’s happening on the inside.

A twitter user named The Joinery has taken it upon himself to illustrate these practices with 3D software. In the simplest fashion, the result is satisfying, entrancing and almost unbelievable.

Check out a few more of the gifs below. Try it if you want, but it seems to us like you need some serious skills to pull this off.

Via Arch Daily.

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