At our May 2018 Yeung Chan was our guest speaker. Yeung was a teacher at the College of the Redwoods.

Yeung talked about making basic joints such as butt, miter, dovetail, tongue and groove, sliding dovetails and loose tenon. He uses most of these joint to construct his pieces.

He likes using machines where he can for the joints as making multiple matching joints by hand is very difficult. When designing the joints equal wood movement should be taken into account.

Yeung designed his featured chair from a photo of a chair in a museum exhibit. He was not entirely satisfied with his first attempt and ended up burning it.

After showing his chair Yeung shared with the group a collection of tools that he has made over the years. As a youth growing up in China he was forced to make his own tools as he could not afford to purchase them. Among his tools were a couple of bronze planes. He found a supplier of bronze U-channel and machined it to build his own planes. 

Yeung is an amazing yet humble woodworker and posses many of the skills we aspire to obtain.