Ari Stool Making - Koitoya Woodworking Class 2025

Ari Stool Making

This is a 4-days course

$1270 inc. GST  

24-27 April, Thu-Sun, 2025

Very popular original and unique design item.

Beginers welcome. Having fun & work completion focused class.

Rich in special skill experience for intermediate woodworkers.

Sliding dovetail, router shaping, Japanese plane & chisel works

Content

Making Ari Stool

This program includes lots of technical aspects of joinery and skills.

Through using router jig work, this class is well supported for total beginners.

This program also requires physical skills for hand curving.

Well suited for intermediate to advanced level to learn about Sliding Dovetail joinery, router jig works.

Ari Stool

​Ari stool was originally designed by Hiroshi for the educational project. The basic design includes a few interesting skills, traditional Sliding dovetail joinery and shaping by curved plane.

"Ari" is a Japanese word for dovetail joinery, which refers to the shape of ant's antenna. Do you prefer Dovetail or ant's antenna?!

Hiroshi has designed a few versions, and so have his students! Come and make your version of Ari stool!

This program suits beginners to advanced woodworker.s

This course is designed for beginners. But the secretive elements of making Sliding Dovetail joinery, and use of Japanese small planes will inspire advanced makers.

This course uses router very heavily. Your safety will be assured with lectures and jigs we use. Also, there will be lots of handworks, plane shaping and chiseling.

You will gain the following from signing up

1. Ari stool, all made by yourself by hand and power tools
2. Hands-on experience on sliding dovetail joinery.
3. Hands-on experience on ​a curved Japanese plane.
4. Advanced routing knowledge with jig work.

Design limitation and free details

• Low stool
• Size about W500 x D250 x H420~450mm
• Leg angle will be 75 degrees
• Free to design details
• Profiles - round, curved, or angled
• Rails - you can add or not to add a middle rail.

Dates (1 occasion)

24-26 April 2025(Thu - Sun)

Time

4 days, 24 hours in total

9:00-12:00 | 13:00-16:00

* Please be flexible with your schedule after the class. Sometimes your project requires extra time to finish.

Schedule

Day 1 

AM: ​Design the details, Lectures

PM: Sliding dovetail 1 and 2

Day 2

AM: Shaping the seating tops

PM: Glue up

Day 3

AM: Middle rails & pins

PM: Finishing

Lecturer

Hiroshi Yamaguchi (KOITOYA Design/Make/Teach)

30 years of experience. Learned in Takayama, Japan.

About Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Fee

$1270

Class size

Maximum 8

Location

Koitoya Design/Make/Teach (Fyshwick, ACT)

New address

4/18 Maryborough Street, Fyshwick ACT 2609

Parking

Please park your car in the public parking area along Maryborough Street (Free), opposite from J Racing.

We have two parking spots officially. Please contact me for the spot if you need to walk less for your health condition.

Way to the workshop

18 Maryborough Street is a battle axe block, located inside of the block, so you will be walking through the driveway that leads to the block from Maryborough Street.

The driveway has 2 accesses, one next to Tania Maras Bridal, and one next to J Racing.

Unit 4 is a blue painted building on the right-hand side of the block.

Album from past workshop

Past Ari Stool Workshop Album

Things to bring

Please wear working shoes.

Bring your own water bottle and lunch.

Things to be supplied

Tea and coffee, snacks, filtered water

Refund Policy

Personal cancelation

Refunds up to 14 days before the event

Humanitix fee is nonrefundable.

for more information, please contact Hiroshi

koitoya@gmail.com / 0412340619