The Best Place to Learn About Japanese Carpentry Tools - Part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 เม.ย. 2021
- Part 2: The Biggest Collection of Japanese Carpentry Tools in Japan - December 2020
In this video, we travel to Kobe, Japan where the Takenaka Carpentry Tool Museum is located. The museum hosts one of the largest collections of Japanese carpentry tools that have been acquired through the centuries. There are replica tools from the Jomon Era (5500 years ago) up until today. The interesting thing about the tools and the techniques used in carpentry is that they have not changed significantly. Of course modern tools like circular saws, electric planers and jointers, etc. are being used today, but they are not on display at the museum. In Japan, it is common practice to learn carpentry the traditional way, but due to rising costs and need for reasonable and timely construction, electric tools have been incorporated into daily work. However, this does not mean that traditional tools are obsolete, in fact traditional tools are used often in the finishing steps of a construction project. Keep in mind years ago there were many more carpenters and tradesman in the world so the number of people working on a single project was much higher than today. In Japan, the population of carpenters has been rapidly decreasing as many houses being purchased today are designed to be scrap and build where the homeowner will likely demolish the house after 30 to 50 years to make way for newer construction.
At the Takenaka Carpentry Tool Museum, we get the chance to look at the progression of tools from 5500 years ago up until today. The techniques may remain the same, but the tools and the materials used in the tools has gotten significantly better and more refined. There is a sense of immense pride in the museum for the Japanese craftsman as there are several displays showcasing metalworkers and carpenters from the past and the present. The skills it takes to make carpentry tools is extremely high and there for these tools do not come cheap. However, once you acquire a full set of Japanese chisels or a full array of Japanese planers this will last you a lifetime if properly taken care of. In many cases, these tools can be purchased from former carpenters at auction or even through direct deals.
What is great about this museum is the fact that you can touch a lot of the displays allowing you to get a better sense of the skills involved to build using traditional tools. The museum also has very well written English displays which helps to learn some of the names of the tools that are being used.
The Takenaka Carpentry Tool Museum is definitely worth the visit if you are interested in high quality Japanese tools.
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Your patient storytelling and the nature of your fascination shows how a good person you are. Thanks for all the very interesting information
Thank you for watching.
I went to this museum in 2018. It's a very cool place! And some interesting tools!! I'm not a carpenter, I'm an architect, but I do like woodworking! I don't live in Japan anymore, and I miss it sometimes. Thanks for the videos! Cheers!
the thing about the sun direction being the front of the tree is Awesome, wood has internal stress that can be saved or comprimised if you cut it wrong. a straight piece of wood cut straight can twist and warp after the cut if the wrong portion is opened up.
That wood grain you’re talking about on some of the tools is called Damascus Steel. It’s a process of several layers of steel being heated and folded over and over again then that’s what produces that type of appearance
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Absolutely lovely museum. It would have been nice to have longer and closer shots of more of the tools. Also, good luck on your journey in woodworking, but remember that it is knowledge, not the number of tools, that make a better carpenter.
It was so beautiful ! Thanks again ....
We are some little fish into this vast ocean hahahaha
Thanks for the museum tour.. 👍🙏
Always welcome
A most impressive modern looking museum. I would love to visit there one day.
you have a good natural humility and reverence that seems to resonate w the tools and museum itself... really cool to witness.
Your explanation is easy to understand!! I’m so impressed.
Cool, I did not know the side where the sun is matters this much
In tea room 11:33 the small door that is entrance at formal Japanese tea ceremony
Knowing where and how a tree grew gives you insights into how it will shrink or twist or warp as it dries out,This way you can use the wood to compensate for this in your project.trees that grow in cold dark places like the north side of a mountain for instance and in competition with other trees will grow slower and the growth rings will be closer together producing denser stronger wood with less limbs and fewer knots.Trees that grow in the wind will have twisted grain.Minerals in the soil and drainage and rain fall will produce very different lumber
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Thank you for showing us the museum. I will definitely visit if I have a chance to visit Kobe.
Great video. Thanks!
What a wonderful museum. when i die i want to be able to haunt around there forever as a ghost. a zimmermann and tool friend from germny
I have visited here 2 times,very good!
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Masterpiece
Thank you.
Thanks for this
My pleasure!
The reason it is important to learn the "front" or the "back" of the tree originates from the early temple builders. It is considered disrespectful to use the back of the tree to face the monks entering a temple.
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Oh and by the way don't worry that you don't got a bazillion tools starting out. Yes you will amass a small fortunes worth of them over time.
When I started I had a pregnant wife and a security guard license. My father in law took me under his wing. He gave me
A penicle
A cats paw
Speed square
A dalluge 28pz framing hammer
An old set of leather bags
A chalk box
It was enough to start putting food on the table since there was no work to be done as a guard any more.
I am not sure this "woodgrain in metal" is actually stroger than more unified steel. Also I bet that making it uses some of the old methods that were used in making steel in Japan. I may be wrong tho
I'm enjoying the journey so far! I like the part especially about the tree position to the sun! A thought that never crossed my mind neither. What vast knowledge thier is on woodworking there must be from centuries of knowledge vs usa wood working knowledge. To me Japanese hand tools are the purist form of tool functionality both in the tool and its blades. They do not waste materials or energy to make a tools fot its intended use.
Don't trap your self in thinking a huge tool box of tools is necessary. Since you don't know the true intend on how that collection came together in first place. Learn to work with the min of tools, and don't fall for artistic tools, only tools that will allow you to get the job done well. Less is best!
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Has any one answered your question as to why you need to know about which direction to wood was naturally in? As in why you want to pay attention to it's curvature and sunny sides, if you were felling and processing your own lumber?
Hi,
From what I could understand, wood growing on a mountain side will develop a curvature due to its wanting to grow straight even though it is positioned on a slope. This curvature is a preferred bend for beams like Maruta, which are the curved beams found in a traditional Japanese house. As for the side facing the mountain vs. the sun their may be healthier cellular level growth on the sunny side due to its naturally increased exposure. I have heard of Japanese carpenters going as far as positioning beams and pillars in a house so that it matches how it would be when they were growing on the mountain. What I mean is that if a side of a tree was facing the sun they will orient that beam to always face towards the sun when building up the house. This is a skill set that the carpenters here develop because they are typically not the one felling the trees, but they have worked with wood for so long they can examine characteristics and then face the wood in the appropriate direction. For the most part, carpenters will know which is the bottom of the tree vs. the top. And at a minimum carpenters will always match bottom of tree to bottom of house for the reasons of some increase in structural integrity. There are universities here in Japan that study these techniques and have come up with data on what is most optimal when timber framing a house. If you dig deeper into this industry you could spend an entire career just studying tree growth and understanding shapes, curves, checking, etc. I would say that tea house carpenters will need to understand these concepts at a higher degree than most other types of carpenters. Their work on tea houses are scrutinized much closer. Good luck. Thank you for watching.
@@thecarpentrylife yup you got it. I could spend days talking about wood. But figured I'd ask if you knew first.
There is nothing more gratifying than felling a tree and processing it and then building with what you made.
Very well described. It might take a lifetime to become operationally capable but the journey is well worth it. Good luck, Godspeed!!
Thank you so much!
Sure seems that way like it takes over your mind that you must think about it constantly.
INfo2. The "wood like" metal is wrough iron or it could be damascus steel too. The blades are made from 2 layers of steel. one 1-2mm thin super hard Aogami white or Blue steel and 3-6mm softer steel as a backing. The steel alloys are variable from softer steels for softer wood to harder tool steel for hard wood. When you want to buy very good tools buy them used from ebay. Look for the 2 layer steels. Sometimes there are bargains...
Thank you for the info.
Must be pattern-welded steel, not 'damascus'. The terms are commonly misused, but there is a very big difference in composition and how they are manufactured.
@@HighWealder well then explain us why that are not 2 layers of damascuslike forged steel tools?
Perhaps the chisels with the wood-grain pattern as you described it, is Damascus steel or made by a similar process?
I am sure they do a combination of several metalworking techniques. Japanese definitely excel at metal working. The chisels in this museum are pieces of art themselves.
In Europe the didn't use wood which grew twisted against the sun. Timber is very unstable
How to get that job in there. I'm a carpenter, could you guide me?
People ask me this type of question all the time. I’ll make a video someday.
Thanks for the tour. But your photography person needs to show the actual tools. Missed out on seeing what you are talking about. Fix it. The museum looks great
For the respect of the museum we tried not to film closeups and give detailed videos. We would rather people know that the museum exists and that it is one of the largest and finest collections of Japanese and Western carpentry tools we have ever seen. Now that people know it exists we only wish that people come to Japan and pay the admission to view the collection.
more recently came the Lamenated steel tools . its a lot less labor intensive to produce and it holds an excellent edge , obviously .
The wavy grain of the steel used in plane irons , blades and chisels is because it is a type of japanese damascus steel , formed from blacksmith forging two different levels of steel hardness together to fold and forge into these wavy steel looking tools . it makes fantastic tools because it holds and edge extremely well and its fairly shock resistant . take a look at old early american and english shotgun barrels . They are made from forged damascus steel . technology learned from asia .