charlie b wrote:
Woodhead wrote:

Can anyone give me an idea of how his "Trick Joint Box" goes together?
It looks impossible! And how are those paper thin fingers cut?

Amazing is an expression of my limited vocabulary.

Jim

Miter the corners of the box, glue it up then make saw
cuts acrossed the corners. Plane stock down to the
width of the saw kerf - in this case in the thin veneer
range, slip pieces in the saw kerf with a LITTLE bit of
thinned glue and wait. when the glue dries pare off
the excess and carefully scrape or plane off any high
bits of veneer. the idea is simple. the execution at
this size is probably not simple.

That's a splined miter, a many splendored but still splined miter.
Here's a picture showing what the guy in question does - true finger
joints the width of a saw blade.
http://www.eurus.dti.ne.jp/~k-yazawa/jointwork.html Looks like he had
a little blow-out, but that's the wabi in his work.
http://c2.com/w4/wikibase/?WabiSabi

R