Surprise! Yes, I'm an aero engineer and find the same thing, except I play flute.

Try learning the guitar at 62. One reason why it is hard to learn things when you're older is that our brain paths have already developed. Skills such as Mr Ishitani has come from deep focus, patience and hand/eye co-ordination. If you haven't developed those parts of your brain starting early, you might never. Very young children can learn new languages very quickly. Older people often can't learn the at all.

@@Automedon2 You do Not know anything about human brains. Human brains can be reprogrammed regardless of the age. Your brain neuropath is more complex than the galaxies in the Universe. New discoveries on human brains are continuously being discovered since mid 90s. You can do alot more than you think you can. You will know when the Creator of the Universe call you.

If you would like to do this, it's a learn-able skill, but great teacher will take years off the learning curve. One of the finest teachers in North America is a friend of mine. His name is Rob Cosman, and he teaches a week long course that is half made up of wounded vets and half civilians. The vets are funded by the fees he collects from the civilians. Everybody comes away with skills that would otherwise take years to learn. What skills? It starts with learning how to sharpen. Handplanes are sharpened free hand in under 30 seconds to a degree that it's very common to take a shaving well under 0.001 of an inch and leave a polished surface to your workpiece. You will also learn to hand cut dovetails that assemble with no test fit. Right from the saw to the joint, and as beautiful as anything you will see anywhere in the world. He travels from his home in New Brunswick to various places around the US. Here in Seattle...I think it was last year, his oldest student, David, cut the best dovetail of the class. David at the time was I think 84.

I am a wood worker and I have to say that before you cut any wood, sharpen your tools. All of them. The planer blades, circular saw blades, chisels, everything. Make it sharper then sharp. Take your time with sharpening, do not rush it. The rest will follow. Just go slow and plan your steps. You can do this too.

At peace.

Read this as it happened. So dope

That's how you get a child? WOW

Derek Forestier IKR! I am one for the small details and watching someone delicately and skilfully tend to them is my idea of beautiful

Yeah i thought the same lol. I went to skip it a few times and thought wait, i like this haha. I liked when he took the dog for the walk and all it showed was the dog got cold and wanted to go back lol. Indeed calming well made video and great carpentry.

Same here... just watched this whole thing from start to finish. Relaxing. Amazing.

I found it calming and positively resonant. Didn't feel to f-forward through at all. Thinking good philosophical thoughts while watching (seeing how principles could relate to my current work testing electric motors). Beautiful

I also appreciated the time to walk your dog!

I so agree. The hand- vs. power-tool purists get so tiresome. It's inspiring to see an expert craftsman with both use whatever he needs to perform his art.

@@drmabeuse this is so true, this guy knows when a machine is better for the job and gives you more quality or that he don't lose quality when he use a machine but when using a machine is lowering the quality he uses hand tools. I like japan because they only use new methods when the quality dont' get lost.

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ISHITANI FURNITURE do you do computer tables?

Thanks Good luck :)

The way you type things makes me remember Gennaro Contaldo

I have sincere question. Why metal fastener is discouraged or as you said prohibited? Stainless screws make these furniture more towards perfect. please enlighten us. Thanks. A'ra'm from California.

It is wood working, not furniture building. Hence you are working the wood into something beautiful. Metal would make it not wood working.

@@sanramondublin Hi Frank. European Cabinet Maker here. The wood itself is still a living, breathing thing. even after you cut it and shape it. Some style of furniture tend to use clever wooden joints and wooden dowels to keep up with the changes in the environment of the life of the furniture. The Furniture will behave differently in a modern dry apartment, than in a 100 year old english cottage. Wooden joints and dowels can work with that. I usually dry out my dowels under a heat lamp before I add them, that way when they get slightly wet from the glue they will further expand in exactly when needed. Right at the gluing process. Metal fasteners although they came a very long way are rigid connection forms, they not allowing for much movement.

Mr Ishitani has a video where he used screws to assemble drawers. I have to admit, I was surprised.

sliding dovetails are very common for keeping warpage of wider boards to a minimum. make sure they are tapered, friction fit and never glue one in! I'm from germany and that is one of the fundamental skills one learns durning the apprenticeship around here. It was used throughout almost every kind of furniture back in the day but nowadays not so much anymore due to the amount of time involved fitting them up. There are just much cheaper and easier ways to to the same thing nowadays. I still prefer this tho.

@@najin0446 Very good explanation. Not to forget tough that it is not used as often as it was in the past due to the climatic conditions most of the furniture lives in now. They do not vary as much as they used to be due to the difference in how we build houses e.g..

I'm guessing he builds it this way in order to be able to take it apart, should the need arise.

I believe it's a tapered dovetail. As such it cannot be assembled the way you state.

Fully agree with you!!

I think it's a full japanese white oak table ;)

Thanks :) The table top is also Oak. The pins are walnut.

Lucy Vega your personal pic is suspicious. Btw not polite to have your advertisement at some one else's channel. A dubious one at that

Francis Jefferson Scam web site that steals from others

翠紅舎 Suikoushya my smart phone doesn’t come with all those symbols

It is very beautiful to see beautiful furniture getting ready. I feel relaxed and flowing time. It is somewhat elegant. informative!

私はビデオがとても落ち着いていたことに同意します。

Someone made a fake instagram account. So we made an official instagram account! instagram.com/ishitani_furniture/

learn sarcasm, it can be funny

Lol, I need that on a t-shirt.

"learn sarcasm"....for the win.

Those 2 sites above are SCAM! The picture of Ted comes from a picture databse. The plans come from all over the internet and fruit of piracy!!

If I may: While it's obvious that your comment is to be read as a humorous compliment, it certainly is not sarcastic. (I'm not even entirely sure about calling it verbally ironic, but that would be a more accurate desription.) Sarcasm always has a negative aspect (aggression, contempt, intent to mock or hurt) and is only loosely related to irony.