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Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use

Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use

Paperback

General WookworkingJapanese History

Publisher Price: $28.95

ISBN10: 0941936465
ISBN13: 9780941936460
Publisher: Linden Publishing
Published: Jan 1 1998
Pages: 189
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 8.50 Depth: 10.90
Language: English

The classic work on the tools and spirit of the Japanese master craftsman.

In Japan, a woodworker spends years learning to use his tools with great speed and skill. Only after he has proved his mastery can he proudly call himself a shokunin, a master craftsman.

Japanese Woodworking Tools brings the traditions and training of the shokunin to the Western world. Calling on his own apprenticeship as a tategu-shi (sliding-door maker), and on 40 years of woodworking experience, Toshio Odate here offers a complete guide to Japanese tools: thin saws that cut on the pull stroke, laminated chisels with hollowed backs, marking tools, waterstones, axes, hammers, and almost 50 different planes.

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