Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use
by Toshio Odate
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This text shows how to use Japanese tools effectively and maintain them properly, and explains the role they play in traditional Japanese craftsmanship. It describes how to create razor-sharp cutting edges and introduces almost 50 different planes.Tags
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This book was written by a man who was raised to be a traditional Japanese carpenter. The title of the book is not hyperbole. It really does go over the Tradition, Spirit and Use of the different tools used in the traditional carpenters trade.
I found the book to be very well written and the author a well spring of knowledge, most of which never made it into the book. I learned quite a bit about care and maintenance of my own hand tools and I have a better appreciation of them.
This book is mostly written for those either interested in Japanese culture and how carpenters fit in and people who really care about woodworking as a craft.
I found the book to be very well written and the author a well spring of knowledge, most of which never made it into the book. I learned quite a bit about care and maintenance of my own hand tools and I have a better appreciation of them.
This book is mostly written for those either interested in Japanese culture and how carpenters fit in and people who really care about woodworking as a craft.
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Toshio Odate gives seminars on Japanese woodworking throughout the United States and Europe. He also teaches sculpture and 3-dimensional design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 684.0820952 — Applied science & technology Manufacture for specific uses Furnishings and home workshops Carpentry - General Woodworking Techniques and Guides Hand Tool Use and Techniques
- LCC
- TT186 .O33 — Technology Handicrafts. Arts and crafts Handicrafts. Arts and crafts Woodworking. Furniture making. Upholstering
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- Languages
- English, German
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