Q: What are the first five sharpening stones I should get?
If you lost all the stones that you have today and had to start from scratch, what synthetic stone line-up would you choose?
A newsletter about Japanese wood craft, by a carpentry apprentice
Q: What are the first five sharpening stones I should get?
If you lost all the stones that you have today and had to start from scratch, what synthetic stone line-up would you choose?
Roofing the Somakosha School dorms
In Okayama, the student dormitories were planed and raised by the time I arrived. They needed to be roofed.
On tuning, using and sharpening mortising machines
A quick and dirty guide to getting a hollow chisel mortiser working well.
"Traditional Tools of Japan": Chouna
Translating the chapter on chouna (adze) from Tsuchida's book on Japanese carpentry tools
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