Redwood Saga is an educational film from 1946 showing the cutting, loading, transportation, milling and finishing operations of the Northern California’s old growth Redwood forest lumber industry. It is fascinating to speculate what impression the great trees of...
Without doubt one of the best known hand tool manufacturers is the Stanley Tool Company. It was founded by Frederick T. Stanley in 1843, originally a bolt and door hardware manufacturing company located in New Britain, Connecticut. The Stanley Rule and Level Company...
Is a delightful stop motion animation movie about how artisans from antiquity to the dawn of the industrial age carried out design – in a nutshell, arithmetic trumped the simple geometric relationships of natural — that rational numbers. ...
In the mesmerizing video, master wood turner,Yasuo Okazaki, turns Kokeshi dolls These exquisite Kokeshi dolls are turned and painted using just a few tools.
There are many wood finishes, but none so extreme as Shou Sugi Ban (or Yakisugi) an ancient Japanese exterior siding technique that preserves wood by charring it. Traditionally, Sugi, (Cryptomeria japonica or Cupressus japonica) commonly called Japanese cedar, was...
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