Hideaki for the first time to make a Precious Boxwood Comb, The method of Smoke Drying is Incredible
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2021
- A Young Man after 6 years of Training, Permitted for the First Time to make a Precious Boxwood Comb
Hideaki Mori, the young Tsuge comb craftsman preserving traditional Japanese culture. At the Tsuge comb shop “Kushidome” in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, Hideaki, who joined after he graduated college, studying under his father Shingo Mori. Found this familiar work more difficult than he imagined for the first year and a half or so.
After 6 years of working with his master and father Shingo, Hideaki has been entrusted with a big job, An order from a Tokoyama in Kyoto: a 6-sun or 18 cm unraveling comb. Before that, he’s only been allowed to work on 4-sun, or 12cm combs. The comb which will fulfill that goal is the first he’s ever made.
The boxwood trees are used as materials for making Tsuge combs. To make a 6-sun comb, a precious plank sourced from a tree 18cm in diameter, over 100 years old, is necessary. There is a method of straightening the planks, passed down for generations. The planks that have warped after a year of shade drying are bundled together, inserted into the barrel, and smoked. Doing this straightens them out, and removes the last of the moisture from the boxwood. They are smoked for 3 months, then shade dried another 3 months, and so on and so on for 5 years until at last planks suitable for combs are produced. Some of these planks need to repeat the process for as much as 10 years to straighten.
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櫛留商店 (KushiTome Store)
Address: 1 Chome-60 Komadomecho, Kita Ward, Nagoya, Aichi 462- 0059, Japan
Phone: +81 52-991-3759
Website: kusitome.com/
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One has to be thankful for the great masters, Without whose knowledge we would not be able to proceed.
Majestuoso trabajo!!! Thnx
Please show us more of the work process. I want to listen working sound without music.
Amazing work
Does the horsetail adhere to the file without adhesive? Do either father or son listen to some sort of music to help maintain the cadence of their file strokes? Thank you for this presentation.
Yes, horsetail after being soaked and scraped out, just leaving the husk. Once dried, it will stick very firmly on the file without any adhesive. both as I know are wanting to be quiet while working
@@WoodworkingEnthusiasts Speaking as a full time woodworker of 45 years experience, I'm interested in experimenting with such traditional techniques. Another is burnishing with oil and chain mail and I've obtained a bit of that. The horsetail, fortunately, seems to grow in all the mid-latitudes including here in Wyoming.
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Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up as I always do
Just how old is the video you are showing us?? I ask cause the the video it's 3 generations but the web site says 4 generations. Not upset just curious
good question sir, This program was recorded and broadcasted in 2011
@@WoodworkingEnthusiasts Really because the guy they are showing as the master isn't the same man but to old to be the son that was in the video unless an older brother is running it. But thanks you very much for answering me
@@WoodworkingEnthusiasts I went to the website shown
I think the business passed to a new family after the 1st generation.
I can make one in 5 minutes using a band saw and grinder.
ahh yes...mediocrity
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Maybe not. Get it up to the point where the traditional methods matter. These comb guys act like they never heard of 600 grit sandpaper. And a polishing wheel with medium compound might be good.
I agree. This whole 6-7 years training to make a comb is lame. It's like a being fancy scam. And they have to be smoked... for what.