hewing beams the Japanese way
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Uploaded by robinturns on Mar 23, 2008
Video of a Japanese master craftsman hewing beams taken at the first German Kesurokai, Diesdorf, August 2005. For more details see Robin Wood's blog http://greenwood-carving.blogspot.com/
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Steel toe boots are in order.
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Steel Toes? wow better him then me...
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keep counting his toes....
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what ever happened to the "10 in 10 out" rule?
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dude put on some god damn shoes for frig sakes...i was curling my toes the entire video ! ; (
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barefooted ?now that takes balls
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Love the Japanese tools, not so much the Japanese safety boots.
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well before the power saw and steel toed boots this is how it was done
skill and man power
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@ronnysizematters with every swing i thought i was going to puke lol
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Looking at the guy chopping a piece of wood he is standing on, barefoot, is sort of disturbing :)
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Excellent workmanship, although other viewers beat me to the jokes about having all his toes.
Is that a European ax he is using?
yugandali 1 year ago
@yugandali The axes are all Jaoanese. The larger one is a masakari and the smaller on the carpenters ono then the adze at the end is a chouna.
robinturns 1 year ago
Wouldn't it be easier and safer to just use a draw knife?
Flumphinator 1 year ago
@Flumphinator
In a word no. This is safe, easy, fast though it does take time to develop the skill to make it so.
robinturns 1 year ago
It's also the American way, and the everybody way. Everybody formed beams with an ax before the steam engine came along. After all, if you don't have a power saw, how else?
No steel toed boots in those days, you just had to be good. Or else they called you gimpy.
The tool in the last few seconds of the vid is what we call an adz, or adze. Both the ax and the adze can be made with flint heads--though I don't know why a cave man would want to square a beam.
picbuck 2 years ago
From what I have seen American hewing is much more like European style hewing as shown in the German style hewing vid. These adzes are very different to American and European tolls too, the bent shaft is designed to flex and they have a very soft fluid action.
robinturns 2 years ago