It now makes sense why some Japanese hand planes are so expensive. You think they're all mass produced, but it's amazing and wonderful to see true masters still doing their craft. I truly hope there is enough demand so he can train up someone else and pass down the knowledge.
Notice the pride and enjoyment on Mr. Watanabe's face as our host uses one of Mr. Watanabe's planes to create an incredibly thin shaving the full length of the board. Notice also that the Master uses the correct specific tool for each operation.
Western woodworkers agonize over bench styles, clamps, and multiple vices. This guy does master-level work sitting on the floor holding the work in his legs and toes 😂
True to a point but the master here does only one thing and he does it very well but most western woodworkers do many different things so need different things to do them
@@Adscam yes I have but have you ever seen a kanna plane maker ever working on a house or temple chances are you haven't as I said the master in the video makes hand planes so I don't think he is doing regular carpentry Monday to Friday and became a master plane craftsman on the weekends
Those old machines have been well-maintained! I have never seen the one that cuts the blade kerf into the block of wood before. Super cool!! Japanese woodworking and carpentry have always fascinated me. Once a month I try to learn a new method of Japanese and Korean joinery and it is very challenging. Much respect for this Master.
It is a rare privilege to be allowed to watch a master at work. The sureness and subtlety of hand and eye. The state of relaxed focus. I find such video footage deeply interesting to witness. It reassures me that there are still quite a few of us out there. Marvellous.
I love this. That Mr. Watanabe's bench is the age-worn floor and his hold-down is his stockinged foot is remarkable. What an honor to watch this master create such useful and beautiful tools. Thank you for sharing.
A master craftsman is only as good as the last tool he made. This gentleman is making absolutely perfect instruments every single time. The ability to do that has taken his whole life to master. That is why he is a master craftsman, as is so rightfully deserving of the title.
Every Japanese woodworking video I watch: the featured makers have a very relaxed attitude to the safety of their hands. The machines have no guards, or are set up so that if there's the slightest mishap, fingers would go into the cutters. It gives me the heebie jeebies. Yes, they're probably skilled; but I've worked with plenty of skilled people that had one mishap, and lost a finger or two. It doesn't bear thinking about, otherwise you'd never do anything with woodworking machines, or; it bears thinking about a whole lot.
Mr. Watanabe, you are a very good Master, my respects to you!!! Excelente trabajo Sr. Watanabe, un verdadero maestro , lo felicito sinceramente, Bravo!!!!
That was really interesting. Never knew white oak would be used for plane body. That automatic chisel machine was fascinating to watch. Fitting handmade blade to body takes a lot of skill to do so quickly and recycling old railroad track is fantastic!
I love everything about Japanese joinery. I love watching chiseling and planing. And as many videos as I’ve watched so far, the chisel he starts using at about minute 8:00 is one I’ve never seen before this video. Thank you!
Es una de las culturas de más admiro. Por su destreza para construir de lo más mínimo asta loas grande. Con una exactitud imprecioonante. Saludos cordiales. 😊
I love watching an older man with a lifetime of skill and wisdom, thank you for this video! By chance, is there a way to purchase Mr. Watanabe Plane Blocks!
What an excellent tool !!!! Makes me want to buy one to achieve the perfect smooth surface for the speaker enclosures I (diy) make now and then. Also I like the socks -made like gloves- he wears
I wish to goodness I could afford a set of handplanes crafted by Mr Watanabe and with cutting irons of his choice. His hard earned skill and the pleasure he derives from seeing his handplanes put to good use certainly inspires faith in craftsmanship and the quality of materials that combine to create top quality tools. An indicator of true quality is when a craftsman stamps and therefore commits his name and faith in his product.
Je connaissais l’outil ; mais j’ignorais complètement sa fabrication… qu’elle patience, qu’elle précision, c’est vraiment très impressionnant. Merci pour cette peut courante et belle découverte….
lovely...nice to. see the many steps, it helps to understand a good one...and why one pays a fair price for both the time, AND skills! i noted that the adjustment of the 'bed' of the blade is quite similar to the hand scraping process in fitting precision machine tools, or in making a very flat surface, using ink to transfer the surface profile, making visible high spots, and overall conformation of for.
Not on your best day could you ever buy a manufactured Plane that would even come close to performing as well as this man's tool. The man is literally shaving wood from the underside that is thinner than human hair. He builds to the Blade. Just amazing. I'll bet the farm that when you Plane with this Master's tool, you could see through the shavings.
24:33 I've seen Japanese planes used for this kind of demonstration before, but it still blows my mind. I'd like to take a micrometer to that shaving, I'm guessing it's under .01mm.
The angle chizel he uses is amazing...you have to have tremendous judgement and skill and working on the most important part of the planer...one mistake at the blade opening and its irreversible..great skill
I learned how to put and adjust the blade on these old fashion hand planer when I was young with the help of my father. The generation nowadays most likely does not even know how to use these.
Is this the Watanabe that was a visiting artist at the furniture and woodwork shop in 2004-2005? If so he taught Japanese joinery and I believe his workshop then was Forest Owl. If so it would be nice to be in contact again. I still have the joint he marked out just before he left.
There nothing more pleasing then to watch woodwork still being done in an old school fashion...sad to say in the same breath that most of these ancient fashions are dying out and not a lot of the get carried over because technology is replacing these skills faster then the apprentices can be trained. ( just for the record...i have nothing againts newer technology methods though)
in Japan we produce and make our own carpentry tools, and do not export from abroad. this is the tradition of our ancestors since time immemorial, it has been going on for centuries. Traditions and handicrafts from the past are still preserved today. it's a cottage industry
That smile mr.watanabe has at the end of the video, that is what success looks like.😁
It now makes sense why some Japanese hand planes are so expensive. You think they're all mass produced, but it's amazing and wonderful to see true masters still doing their craft. I truly hope there is enough demand so he can train up someone else and pass down the knowledge.
This is so pleasant to watch. Skill like this has taken a lifetime to develop. Thanks for sharing these amazing craftsmen, my friend!
👍👍
This type of work is the very definition of sustainable building techniques. Tradition is a lot smarter than we think.
Notice the pride and enjoyment on Mr. Watanabe's face as our host uses one of Mr. Watanabe's planes to create an incredibly thin shaving the full length of the board. Notice also that the Master uses the correct specific tool for each operation.
😂 best part
Western woodworkers agonize over bench styles, clamps, and multiple vices. This guy does master-level work sitting on the floor holding the work in his legs and toes 😂
Agonize?.. and they call me the pinhead
True to a point but the master here does only one thing and he does it very well but most western woodworkers do many different things so need different things to do them
@@ronbarnett2383 Have you seen a Japanese wood worker built a house or a Temple?
@@Adscam yes I have but have you ever seen a kanna plane maker ever working on a house or temple chances are you haven't as I said the master in the video makes hand planes so I don't think he is doing regular carpentry Monday to Friday and became a master plane craftsman on the weekends
Asian people have a different body type than those in the west, they can sit hunched over all day and not have back problems.
These master craftsmen are so amiable and open to visitors!
Those old machines have been well-maintained! I have never seen the one that cuts the blade kerf into the block of wood before. Super cool!! Japanese woodworking and carpentry have always fascinated me. Once a month I try to learn a new method of Japanese and Korean joinery and it is very challenging. Much respect for this Master.
👍👍👍
Japanese cratfsmen are the best wood joinery makers in the world. This is a small example of it.
It is a rare privilege to be allowed to watch a master at work. The sureness and subtlety of hand and eye. The state of relaxed focus.
I find such video footage deeply interesting to witness. It reassures me that there are still quite a few of us out there. Marvellous.
Thank you for filming this! It was fantastic!
I love this. That Mr. Watanabe's bench is the age-worn floor and his hold-down is his stockinged foot is remarkable. What an honor to watch this master create such useful and beautiful tools. Thank you for sharing.
A master craftsman is only as good as the last tool he made. This gentleman is making absolutely perfect instruments every single time. The ability to do that has taken his whole life to master. That is why he is a master craftsman, as is so rightfully deserving of the title.
Every Japanese woodworking video I watch: the featured makers have a very relaxed attitude to the safety of their hands. The machines have no guards, or are set up so that if there's the slightest mishap, fingers would go into the cutters. It gives me the heebie jeebies. Yes, they're probably skilled; but I've worked with plenty of skilled people that had one mishap, and lost a finger or two. It doesn't bear thinking about, otherwise you'd never do anything with woodworking machines, or; it bears thinking about a whole lot.
Mr. Watanabe, you are a very good Master, my respects to you!!! Excelente trabajo Sr. Watanabe, un verdadero maestro , lo felicito sinceramente, Bravo!!!!
The skill of this master craftsman is admirable and the quality of the Plane Block made is excellent. Good luck
包み口の仕込み作業は貴重です。
前半で、台屋さんの仕事はここまで、と思いきや、後半で悶絶しました❤
Simply stunning craftsmanship. Thankyou all for sharing this with us.
It's always a great pleasure to watch a Master work their craft!!!! Great job!!!!!
That was really interesting.
Never knew white oak would be used for plane body.
That automatic chisel machine was fascinating to watch.
Fitting handmade blade to body takes a lot of skill to do so quickly and recycling old railroad track is fantastic!
The steel will be well seasoned
Amazing. A lot different than my $65.00 Amazon version.
Thank you so very much for a look into the work of such a very talented craftsman. 🙏
High quality craftmanship. Pleasure to enjoy!!
I love everything about Japanese joinery. I love watching chiseling and planing. And as many videos as I’ve watched so far, the chisel he starts using at about minute 8:00 is one I’ve never seen before this video. Thank you!
Superb videography! Thank-you for the English commentary. Your video did the Master's skill justice. Thanks!
Thank you
Very interesting video, thank you for sharing!
Fantastické, ta preciznost je až neuvěřitelná!
Thank You for video. It's amazing.
This is a perfect job!! Congratulations Mr. Mitsuo Watanabe!! Really perfect!!
Fantastic craftsmanship Mr. Watanabe! Thanks a lot for Sharing🙏🏻👍
Minha admiração a esse povo ordeiro e inteligente na arte de fazer bem feito. Parabéns. From Brazil.
I can’t believe he’s wearing toe socks, and yet somehow it makes perfect sense
Natural clamps
That was really cool to watch. Never saw one being made by machine before. That was really interesting.
Es una de las culturas de más admiro. Por su destreza para construir de lo más mínimo asta loas grande. Con una exactitud imprecioonante. Saludos cordiales. 😊
brother i can't thank you enough for these videos, i'm trying to make planes for my own and these are super cool to watch
Awesome..making wooden layering used with small koyoshiya 👍👏👏
I love watching an older man with a lifetime of skill and wisdom, thank you for this video! By chance, is there a way to purchase Mr. Watanabe Plane Blocks!
Very Nice movie of Japanse craftmanship 👌 thanks for posting
So cool. You are like a kid at the end taking those shavings
What an excellent tool !!!! Makes me want to buy one to achieve the perfect smooth surface for the speaker enclosures I (diy) make now and then. Also I like the socks -made like gloves- he wears
A joy to watch. I'm instantly in love with this Marunaka super surfacer :D
Beautiful photogra[phy. Inspirational craftsmanship by a quiet artist.
Exquisite... I have some ordinary level Kanna that I look forward to bringing back into use. The skill is wonderful to see here from Master Watanabe.
Those shavings at the finalé set it all into perfect context👌
I wish to goodness I could afford a set of handplanes crafted by Mr Watanabe and with cutting irons of his choice. His hard earned skill and the pleasure he derives from seeing his handplanes put to good use certainly inspires faith in craftsmanship and the quality of materials that combine to create top quality tools. An indicator of true quality is when a craftsman stamps and therefore commits his name and faith in his product.
I love how so many Japanese tools function on the pull stroke. It seems that you’re way more in control.
Probably the best Daya.
What an adorable and humble craftsman
Creation from a Great Master thank you very much from French Brittany.. it is an awesome work of Art❤❤❤❤
Thank you too!
thank you sir and the master for the video ...
Wonderful, beautiful and marvellous to see! I want one too!!!!!
Je connaissais l’outil ; mais j’ignorais complètement sa fabrication… qu’elle patience, qu’elle précision, c’est vraiment très impressionnant. Merci pour cette peut courante et belle découverte….
Glad to hear you liked it. There are lots of things we haven't discovered yet. Hope you guys enjoy the journey with us.
So cool to watch a master at work.
And that is why , it is expensive , it's worth the money !!! ❤❤❤❤
lovely...nice to. see the many steps, it helps to understand a good one...and why one pays a fair price for both the time, AND skills!
i noted that the adjustment of the 'bed' of the blade is quite similar to the hand scraping process in fitting precision machine tools, or in making a very flat surface, using ink to transfer the surface profile, making visible high spots, and overall conformation of for.
This will go to my favorites, splendid film ty.
Not on your best day could you ever buy a manufactured Plane that would even come close to performing as well as this man's tool. The man is literally shaving wood from the underside that is thinner than human hair. He builds to the Blade. Just amazing. I'll bet the farm that when you Plane with this Master's tool, you could see through the shavings.
جميل.....أشياء جديدة نكتشفها.....بالتوفيق.
Good job friend
great skill from this man!!
Lovely video thank you. What Wood do they use for the wonderful plane shavings at the end of the video?
They usually plane Hinoki (Japanese Cypress).
So pleasant to watch 🌷
Love the toe socks😊
Amazing! My Respect for such craftmanship! :) Best Wishes. :)
Fabulous! Perfection indeed!
thanks so much for sharing this video!!!
Wow, thank you very much
Fantastic! Compliments
Thanks for sharing! Its amazing work!
24:33 I've seen Japanese planes used for this kind of demonstration before, but it still blows my mind. I'd like to take a micrometer to that shaving, I'm guessing it's under .01mm.
Beautiful working!! 🙏🏻🤗🙋♂️🇫🇮
Thanks mate, love these videos
Very cool.
Amazing job!
У японских мастеров все работы очень интересные , нежные и изящные . 👍🙏
i enjoy ur videos they inspire me
This is a case where you take the greatest pride in what you ceate.
Tuyệt vời của sự khéo léo và kỹ năng sử dụng máy móc .Sự phát triển của nước Nhật là tất yếu ,bởi có nhiều nhân tài và lòng đam mê.
god, that plank of wood looks so perfect
Unbeliveable! Thank You!
The angle chizel he uses is amazing...you have to have tremendous judgement and skill and working on the most important part of the planer...one mistake at the blade opening and its irreversible..great skill
Dying to get a few of those planes. Ordered one, but never came. Will try again in the new year, when the budget allows!
Wonderful!
Wow... I like it
幾十年只做一樣東西也算是幸福的事情!!
Great work. Sugoi
*A masterpiece* 👍👍👍
LOVE his socks
I want one of those carving machines so bad.
Japanese are admirable, they still have their Emperor. No other nation has, disrespectfully deposed. Respect is the key to all good things.
There are several monarchies still "operating" to this day.
@@didndido3638 they are all Kings and Queens. Not Emperors.
@@tayyabsafdar7069 Empires are anachronistic.
I learned how to put and adjust the blade on these old fashion hand planer when I was young with the help of my father. The generation nowadays most likely does not even know how to use these.
I hear you. You are a lucky one.
The machine at :44 is beautiful.
10,10,10!!!
Compliment!! For tutorial...for Shopping?👍
Is this the Watanabe that was a visiting artist at the furniture and woodwork shop in 2004-2005? If so he taught Japanese joinery and I believe his workshop then was Forest Owl. If so it would be nice to be in contact again. I still have the joint he marked out just before he left.
More than likely it is a different Watanabe. This Watanabe is a master at making the Kanna Dai.
🎉tuciĺle👌
There's something meta about using a planer to make a planer
прекрасно ) просто прекрасно )
было бы отлично если б вы показали как делать рубанок для кумико, который не отрезает а надкусывает )
awesome♥️👍🤝🙏
There nothing more pleasing then to watch woodwork still being done in an old school fashion...sad to say in the same breath that most of these ancient fashions are dying out and not a lot of the get carried over because technology is replacing these skills faster then the apprentices can be trained. ( just for the record...i have nothing againts newer technology methods though)
Same here.
in Japan we produce and make our own carpentry tools, and do not export from abroad. this is the tradition of our ancestors since time immemorial, it has been going on for centuries. Traditions and handicrafts from the past are still preserved today. it's a cottage industry