Japanese Timber Framing - Tatemae for a Japanese-American House
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- In this short, we are doing a Tatemae (House Raising) for a Japanese-American House. The house is made from Sugi (Japanese Cedar) and Hinoki (Japanese Cypress).
Excellent 'snack' to partly fill us til the next 'meal' of a longer video. 🙏 Arigato gozaimasu! Keep up the good works
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Quick question. Is the framing done by hand in a shop or done by machine in a factory? I see the lumber trucked in, precut, I was just curious what method is used. Thanks, enjoyed your videos so far.
I was at a German framer shop few days ago.
They had a CNC machine which could make a whole of joints of huge and small wood beams.
I asked the boss “I thought we’d do it by hand” to which he replied “No one’s got the money for that!”
The joints were superb and cut nicely & smoothly for a machine.
Japan is a capitalistic country much like Germany. It capitalistically makes no sense to cut joints with hand. Even if operator is fast and precise, you have to calculate the years of experience gathered at much lower hourly rate, which then makes that operator fast. A comprise for the worker but no worker wants that.
Most likely the joints are machine made and transported ready to be installed, from factory or their own workshop both is possible.
Even if joints are machine made at least the house has no nail, glue or screw or nothing in it’s framing it’s pure wood.
Look up Miyadaiku, those people probably make hand made joints of big frame pieces to repair old temples & shrines. There definitely they still do it by hand here & there where they need to or it is convenient to do so
How does a foreigner go about getting into the trade in Japan?
What kind of sock/shoe is that? It's dope.
How many workers fall? It doesn’t look very safe to walk carrying to hose timbers
Insert into the hole !!!
I was going to make a joke about the law of the instrument, but it didn't quite fit. :P
Because I couldn't nail it.