Japanese woodworking - Building Winder Stairs

*In the video, it is explained as a spiral staircase, but the correct word is winder stairs.
In this video, I'd like to show you one of the biggest works for carpenters. I'll process the winder stairs of 5 steps manually. If it has only 3 steps, it's not a big deal. But to make 5 steps is hard work. I'll use red pine. I think it will be beautiful.
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Hello!
I’m Shoyan, a Japanese carpenter.
I’ve been working as a carpenter for 48 years.
I also have licenses of architect and technician.
I’d like to show you my work, knowledge, etc. regarding Japanese carpenter.
I hope you enjoy my video!
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[@chrismaurer2075]

I just happened on your channel today and after this video I just had to like and subscribe . You Sir are a fantastic craftsman .

[@freemansame8062]

That precision carpentry art is almost extinct, Thank you Master for sharing a priceless piece of art.

[@onerbfromtn4320]

Beatiful work. Thank you so much, master craftsman, for sharing your fantastic workmanship. I do so enjoy seeing the differing ways (and some similarities) of problem solving and building things of beauty as well as durability. Thanks again for sharing your talent and skills

[@craigclemans966]

Thank you for the English translation. A true craftsman in any language! Enjoy all the videos I have watched. ❤️👍

[@vintrac]

There’s a feeling of calm serenity within me watching his vidz,Domo Arigato.

[@yuwish6320]

I love that Shoyan sharpens his pencil with a chisel. True carpenter.

[@lost68er1]

This staircase really looks beautyful! And it's very relaxing to watch a master carpenter working, 'cause every workstep looks as simple as breathing...

[@waltflansburg5608]

Beautiful, precision construction! Quality work that is rare in today’s fast paced, slap-it-together construction.

[@herenthere10]

Enjoy these videos immensely!

[@dannytthompson4863]

All of the wood in this structure is beautiful... We can't even get wood this nice in the states. Thanks for showing your work. I am a master carpenter as well, and I learned a few things. You are awesome.

[@jdominian5569]

Wow! Incredible craftsmanship.

[@simmonscarl1]

Amazing work

[@greatwall2003]

Very impressive, precision is remarkable.

[@garyedwards5322]

By far, my favorite carpenter!

[@stanrgertz5404]

Definitely a MASTER . I’m envious.

[@Potrvlb]

Fantastic video! Thank you taking the time and care to film these. Very much enjoyed this.

[@thetallcarpenter]

I enjoyed every minute of your video🤗Fantastic skills and thanks you for taking the time to film and edit it👍

[@om4444]

I love watching this guy work.

[@gordonmcfadyen4219]

You are a true artist.

[@jeffwithag.2427]

If my shop teacher saw any of us use a circular saw like that with a hand out in front, instead of both hands on the tool, I’m sure he’d have had a itchy canary. Loved this video.

[@derptothemaxclearly]

Fantastic work!

[@JuliodelaYncera]

Beautiful job ! Please keep posting

[@thehut2016]

Beautiful work.

[@jonnycoathanger8399]

I am totally blown away!!

[@user-bd5xd6bt6c]

Beautiful. Man I have to figure out how to build one of these for a project im doing!

[@jaymefunny7424]

A great video. A truecraftsman!

[@philclarke4598]

Thankyou for making the video and sharing your immense skill. Best wishes to you

[@efklijzing]

thank you for sharing your work, your skill and craftmanship in this video. It is a real pleasure to whatch. Sincerely yours, a young carpenter from Amsterdam, the Netherlands

[@thewitchskitchen]

beautiful, thank you

[@matthewhuot4189]

Amazing craftsmanship a real master. 👏

[@porkchop3094]

MASTERFUL!

[@emilydahlia4178]

Thank you so much! Beautiful work!

[@Vet6970]

beautiful work

[@donaldadams5342]

Beautiful work, so much precision & understanding of what is needed & what, in fact, works best. Can never tire of watching you work so let's get on with the next video. Cheers, Don from South Aust.

[@dangou-nchained5854]

Very nice craftsmanship.

[@patriciakaufmann2229]

BEAUTIFUL

[@beefsamples]

Can you please start a patreon or something. I’d be more than happy to subscribe and pay monthly to hopefully get more of your videos in english. I’ve learned so much technique from your videos in Japanese. I would love to have a way to say thanks (the best i can do now is sitting through the ads on your content)

[@obiknobi8447]

I really appreciate your skill and effort in sharing. Thank you

[@emrysmcwryn7902]

Very impressive!

[@tonycole9593]

Ohayo! perfect. Really enjoyed it

[@just4fun-family145]

Master of his trade!

[@421rants2]

Thanks for sharing.....I've watched 3 of your videos back to back, and as a master machinist for 40 years, let me say. You, Sir, are a whole lot better than very good at this......subscribed. = )

[@madmanmapper]

Am I the only American admiring their framing lumber? Not only is it beautiful, it all looks perfectly straight. I live in a country of forests, and our construction lumber looks like shit.

[@jimreilly3111]

excellent

[@piobacani939]

Nice good job

[@TheLegend-nx3mm]

Beautiful simply beautiful well done you sir. Kind regards Danny uk

[@molitovv]

My man is a beast

[@Joseph-jx8bl]

Artist!

[@johnnichols2710]

Very nice

[@johnspencer1145]

Beautiful work thank you 👍🏻

[@DrummerBrandonLaliberte]

すごい！

[@briandavern8741]

Beautiful Work

[@sverdson]

très beau travail !

[@ewacreative]

I like it! Gratulálok!

[@jasonnester9514]

Wish we had beautiful framing lumber like he has

[@toddavis8603]

Beautiful job!

[@DanMaker]

I like the technique of drilling out the knots, instead of trying to chisel them out.

[@sueliflorida9937]

BELO TRABALHO MEUS PARABENS

[@robertocruz6190]

Exelente

[@cuperdiaz232]

I need a teacher like him

[@debbushee6970]

Beautifulwork you are very talentedsincerely deb in Vermont

[@bailey1000100]

With all do respect, this staircase is what we call a winder. Because of how it it winds it's way up or down. It is not a spiral staircase in the traditional sense. But either way, it is some fine workmanship. And it IS beautiful.

[@fringedwellermccatintyre730]

It's due respect, not do respect - sorry if that's too picky, but I couldn't help it!

[@donnijames9594]

But winders are not constructed like that at all.

[@jachse8464]

Nice work. Unfortunately, those kinds of winders aren't allowed in the US anymore.

[@mouadvincent7168]

Please make video of the tools you work worth the most

[@jleftraru]

Su nivel de perfección es fabuloso...y pienso que lo que cobra por su trabajo debe ser impagable para un humano común y corriente....

[@J-o-n-a-t-h-a-n]

I love that you take pride in your work. Beautiful job.

[@WilliamAlanPhoto]

Arigato!

[@gillymilly3017]

Amazing i love this.

[@chessboardman7888]

What an honorable and honest, talented and hardworking guy he seems to be

[@andrewballa979]

Beautiful job Japanese craftsmanship you can tell everything fits perfectly thank you

[@tomthumb1671]

Beautiful Craftsmanship . So good to see old school skills ,May i ask , I have the old Groove Cutter being used and would love to no where i could find groove cutter blades and the Fence being used , i have all but that and run a 35mm cutter on mine ,but would like to buy a few more, is there somewhere i could purchase from in japan and could you show the concave blade in step treads being used . Love the very interesting videos.

[@Faruk651]

Aside from his skills, how does he not get confused by the complexity of the cuts and order of the jobs. He makes it so easy that you think everybody can do this. I built winder stairs myself and it is a very hard work to get it right.

[@HeroOfTime303]

My guess would be his experience and repetition of the job itself. He's built the equivalent of 40 houses.

[@SonofDaVinci4]

Subarashii 😊

[@DSkimRS]

beautiful work, I would have rounded the edges of the steps though, this way its easier to slip and fall down them

[@salc9593]

Thank you for posting these informative and instructional video. I would like to ask what is the thickness of the lumber you used for the steps. Korera no yūekide kyōiku-tekina bideo o tōkō shite itadaki arigatōgozaimasu. Suteppu ni shiyō shita mokuzai no atsu-sa o oshietekudasai.

[@divineskeptic3153]

I've noticed that the winders stairs are attached to the wood frame. Have you ever considered doing that to the straight stairs meaning that you could HIDE the stringers to the wall framing. NO STRINGERS looks like the stairs are floating as oppose to seeing a normal stair stringer. I enjoyed all your video and wished I could do all your techniques but I have a limited workshop and tools. I hope you try my idea and make a video of it. Thanks from Vancouver, Canada........Ping

[@robertocruz6190]

Hello teacher

[@kernow9324]

Domo arigato gozai masu.

[@franck7422]

Très beau travail

[@rumin8470]

Domo arigato gozaimasu (bowing emoji here if I could find it)

[@johnjbish]

This is incredible. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@crm.carpentry]

Please don't stop making episodes. Do you do patreon? May I ask, what is that large square you use whilst using your circular saw?

[@relie6476]

Shoyan, would you share what brand of chisels you use and where you can buy them from? Thanks!

[@christophercramer4007]

Thanks, I learned a lot from this video. What’s the name of the tool used at 6:32 to carve out grooves?

[@fredbosch5392]

I was hoping for this episode in english. Thanks.

[@charissborlaza7741]

arigato gozaimasu

[@SemourKlitz]

Awesome carpentry from a Master Carpenter. I learned so many little things during this video I can hardly count them all. If I had produced this I would've have used Pro Tips and pointed out each one of these. For instance, just the way you expertly sharpened your penicl on a table with one of your chisels. And the way you cut out your treads atop that solid insulation board was very clever. What you didn't fully explain was how you laid out the winder staircase. I've read a ton of architechtural and housebuilding books and never one of them addresseh spiral staircases. I'm curious, did you father teach you such genius-level building skills? And where does one acquire such amazing tools as you demontrated here??

[@scottwright388]

This is technically not a spiral stair, it's a winder. I worked a a stair company, and finding a good winder builder was not an easy task. You might think circular stairs would be more difficult, but not from my experience.

[@psidvicious]

His instructions were to make a full scale, 2D plan view drawing of what you are trying to build. I’m not sure what other instructions he can give. It doesn’t do much good for him to get too far into the weeds about the specific numbers on this project, because every project has it’s own unique parameters. I’ve always found making detailed drawings and sketches of what it is you are trying to build, are always very helpful. It can really help the task at hand to ‘soak in’ when you dissect the numbers and run them forwards and backwards several times, to insure you know things are going to work once the saw hits the material.

[@daijoubu4529]

8:19 When your chisels are razor sharp and you sharpen your pencil with it

[@terrywilliams3741]

What kind of saw is that that it removes material (wood) like a router IN ONE PASS?

[@annanoe7325]

What is the name of the saw type tool you used to cut out the dados?

[@frantisek_heca]

I still don't understand how the staircase in general can hold heavy usage, when the steps are hanging on such a tiny spots in the vertical posts.

[@warrior4christ777]

Why didn't you use biscuits or dowels in joining the different Pisces of the steps?

[@isaalanezi4897]

What’s the large ruler he used and where I can get one ??

[@SHIEET817]

Have to taken precautions to prevent squeaky stairs in the future? If so what are they?

[@scottwright388]

I worked in stairs for 20 plus years, and at one point did service calls. At least 90% of call I went on were for squeaky or popping stairs, and they were all new houses. Eventually I convinced upper management to make some manufacturing changes to reduce this. Sorry for the long reply, just something I'm kinda proud of.

[@user-vz4sc1mv2k]

Хорошо, добротно. Вместо титевы можно было косоуры поставить

[@Steve-dr7rr]

Have you thought about using knee pads to help your knees

[@BareFlame]

This man sharpened a pencil with a chisel.. EPIC

[@mucsalto8377]

as a joiner, I do that everyday. A chisel is at hand, a sharpener is not. Sanding paper is fine, too.

[@claudiomejia1956]

This is better than trying to build your body trying to be a bodybuilder and become a looser.

[@DuncanCunningham]

that wood is beautiful, they don't make USA homes like that. I wonder if what he is doing would be to code for the US.

[@adammacer]

I built an open-tread radial stair a few years back with tapered treads, visible from all angles, from bottom to top, made up of laminated 2x4 Douglas Fir. As each tread was more or less the exact same taper I glued up the 2x4 into wide enough panels that I could get two treads out of each = you COULD clamp the wood and there were no screw holes. The leading edge of each tread was the outside parallel faces of the panel and the angled back was the cut face.. it turned out very nicely. Also 'nags'?! - you mean 'knots'.. ;o)