Make: Volume 82

A couple years ago, longtime Make: author

Len Cullum came to my house to purchase

a pile of granite cobbles that I had left over

from a driveway project.We chatted a bit and

found thatwe shared an affinity for Japanese

aesthetics.I gave him a copy of a little instruction

booklet I had made on how to construct a shiorido

tea garden gate, which he later shared with the

folks atMake:magazine.

Many years ago, at an instructional class at

the Portland Japanese Garden, I had made a

shiorido, but that gate is long gone.So I told

Make: I’d build another one, so that you can see

the actual finished product.Thedesignof the

gate is not mine.It ...