The scariest part is once the old timers are gone and the youth don’t follow in. It’s gone. We can almost get back to where the old guys were if we dedicate our whole lives to the trades but generational work,once lost, is not recoverable, it’s just guess work and prayer at that point.

I hope the younger generation will step in to learn

If you go work in a "cheap" metalshop in central Europe, you will see the opposite going on. Most of the people think these kind of things just gone, but its a daily routine in small companies.

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@@planesandcanes5094 Japan is a different case, from other places, in two regards. 1) they don't share or explain their craft. This may be changing for various reasons today, but typically it was a you "steal" the knowledge from your master. And they also don't do the scientific method thing where there has to be a technical or economic reason for everything. Often explanations for features are not rational. Whether this was secrecy, or something else I don't know. Obviously there are tons of engineers, but the western language of everything has a technical explanation (often wrong) did not exist back in the 80s when I got into this stuff. 2) A second reason is there must have been thousands of these shops, often smaller than a chicken coup, with individual blacksmiths. So it wasn't as though the stuff we are loosing was every generally known in the first place. It was one person's property. --------------------------------------------------------------- However, in the west, much was lost, and places like Williamsburg recovered it. There is a story that they needed to do something and so one of them went to the blacksmith and described what they needed, and there is a vernacular to smithing, so he approached the problem with that to work with. A tool emerged. Later that very tool emerged from archeology, even though nobody had seen it up to then. In the west, we have been rediscovering stuff for 50 years. What has changed is what we do with the tools. For instance 90% of the planes, let's say, that a guy would have had would have been molding planes, and super tuned tissue creating finishing planes, aren't even required. But guess what the balance of planes are today. The work changes, and so people don't care about a ton of the stuff that used to be or how things were done. Think of the obsession, for dovetails... Apprentice work, in a lot of cases.

Agree 👍

We are glad to hear that!

Same, thanks for posting !

Here's the best channel I found on Japanese saw sharpening : kzfaq.info/love/gQMmdFxUjqbC-dOa9gnF1Q Japanese saws are about half as short as western ones due to the pull stroke, and tend to have larger teeth. They use special very thin files to sharpen the long thin teeth, and typically hold the file low with a lot of slope to avoid vibrations.

Thank you for watching.

We have no idea. Maybe shopping online?

In the U.S. check out Suzuki-ya as well as Hida Tool and Hardware, both are great.

There really is not name for it. Most craftsman build their own. It is not something that can be bought.

@@thecarpentrylife but it must have some name for that tools on japanese

It is Oiire Nomi.

@@thecarpentrylife muchas gracias saludos desde Perú

Sounds like a real katana, don't you think?

@@thecarpentrylife absolutely..!! sringggggg!!

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