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[hammock]

My idea of a perfect house involves post-and-beam construction with no nails at all and only traditional joinery :)

Although I know a guy who takes down really old buildings and regularly sees hand-wrought nails, those are cool too

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Do you mean traditional Japanese joinery? Because for sure the traditional western joinery involved nails.

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Mortise and tenon. Found all over the world, some of the earliest examples are in europe

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You also have whatever it is using pegs - https://yankeebarnhomes.com/2017/12/14/post-beam-vs-timber-f...

Though that may be just a variation of mortise and tenon.

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If will check it out, thanks! Until now I was not aware of anything like that outside Japan.