Thank you Eliot. Any work with shaping wood is usually a recipe for a satisfying life I feel. So congrats yo you also!

Thank you very much your very kind. I’m glad you enjoyed it!

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Thank you I’m glad you enjoyed. Please enjoy parts 2 and 3 !

@@GinkoHanga I will and thanks

You can try the CC function in the top right to give you translated subtitles.

Thank you. This is a big question with a lot of nuances reasons, but there are a couple of advantages. One is speed, when you are carving delicate dots and lines and you turn the block it’s easy to lose you place and can’t see where you cut because of the light, so this slows you down. Second is the feel of the lines, it’s best to cut curves in on fluid stoke and if you stop and start as you turn you can lose the life in the lines your carving. Another reason is that bigger blocks are difficult to carve sitting in the traditional way if you turn to cut lines. It’s not easy to reach the top of an Oban block in portrait without getting up. There are a bunch of other reasons to do with the angle of the knife and how pigment is brushed onto the block.. too much to go into in a comment. It takes a long time to get comfortable carving this way but once you got it, it makes life a lot easier. That’s not to say we don’t turn blocks at all! Hope this helps

@@GinkoHanga Thanks for the informative answer. I experimented today a bit with not turning, and it felt absolutely impossible + the results were horrendous :D it is always very humbling (and informative) to see somebody leagues above your own skill "show off" their hard work. Looking forward to the next series, if something like that is planned.

It takes a while, I was really strict with myself for a long time wouldn’t turn for any reason and I became comfortable. It comes eventually if you’re persistent!

I’m glad I managed to hold your attention! Hopefully you also could see how I use me knife clearly.😊

It’s called ‘yamazukura’ in Japanese which translates to - mountain cherry.

Thank you! It’s fun making your own for sure you should try, you can buy the carving knives from woodlike matsumura I use the 4.5 mm blades. Good luck

Hi I’m not sure exactly how many days as at the time I was working on this part time. I was still teaching and I had other assignments that I made thought. Start to finish it was about 6 months. The full breakdown of the blocks is in the final video. It’s fun but doing anything for 12 hours every day becomes tiring! Thank you for watching

Cheers man. NO COFFEE is a coffee brand from Japan, not a philosophy just an old barista coffee snob hahah

@@GinkoHanga hehe, I feel tricked!

Try something with a little less colour overlays! You can make a small print in a couple of days, start simple

Yeah you sound give it a go.

Thank you, It’s been fun !

pretty sure pride is a sin hahah… but I’m really pleased with how it came out! Thank you for following along with it!

Hah yes pride in oneself is a sin but pride in your work with humility to understand you can always improve really comes through in this series.

Thank you man.

I carved some new blocks and I was working with Ayumi san on it today. Hopefully we can get a nice print out of it👍

@@GinkoHanga I blew up the pic that John Bull had in his email of the Japan alley with the guy who looks like he's feeding a cat. Maybe I have that wrong but it looks like that and I think it's the best of the series so far. I will buy it as soon as it's out, I hope to see that pic on the website pretty soon, it's a winner.

Good luck with your own print making. It’s wasn’t an easy rout to take, the account I gave was condensed. I’m not sure it it’s a road map for anybody to follow, but there are ways to study for a time here!

Thank you very much. That’s a phenomenal series of prints your a lucky man.

No you are! 😊

Mhmm next time should be easier! Thank you very much

Thank you, yeah the next one will be shorter hopefully haha

😊 it took a while but got there in the end! Good luck with your projects.

Thank you again Simon I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos. Part three has a wrap up interview with Dave about the project which I’m assuming you will enjoy😊

Thank you for picking up a print! You now have a little bit more of an attachment to it now after seeing how it was made. I hope it’s some pleasant eye candy for you for many years to come 😍

It’s just very satisfying work! I don’t remember the exact time it took but it was about a month of carving for the key.

Thank you! Here’s to a 2024 with many more prints to come🥳

Thank you for following along Sara, I’m glad there has been some useful info in them for you. The comments have been great it’s nice to see so much positivity (a rarity I’m to believe here) and lots of sharing of information. I hope it continues !

Thank you, I’m happy to hear, I hope the next videos please :) The wood is a mountain cherry. I keep my knife pretty sharp and I’m only carving just over a millimetre so the carvings not very strenuous but the wood itself is quite hard. As to how often I sharpen it a little tricky to say, I carve with three knives so that if I chip or one gets dull I can continue without stopping. So I’m judgment of how often i sharpen is a little off. Depends on how well I sharpen, the wood and how good the steel is at that particular point but ranges from once a day to once a week.

Thanks for your detailed reply regarding your sharpening. Having a number of knives available to work with sounds like a sensible idea so you don't lose the flow of carving when one blade needs work.

I plan to make lots more, hopefully you’ll enjoy what comes next! Bare with me 🐻

A Lovely sentiment. Merry Christmas and new year to you too! I hope it’s a good one.🥂

Really glad you and others are enjoying it. More to come, tell your friends!

Our plan with the next version is not just to deepen but also introduce some barren-suji and also manage the gomma more. Making it more pronounced in some areas (wall for instance) and reducing in others. I keep finding new copies up for sale so my reference list keeps growing. Like Ayumi san said tho, it would be really great to have a look at one in person, that would be such a game changer. Thanks for you interest in this project, we are all developing here to try and level up!

Perhaps persuade Dave on Twitch to ask to borrow an early impression. I know of 2 occasional Twitch viewers who have significant Yoshida collections, both in the US, and 1 frequently lends to exhibitions. A slight problem with this is that early shin-hanga tended to resist printmaking simply as reproduction so often prints were similar but every print was a little different. Again, very well done. 3 videos can't really convey how much time and effect really was put in.@@GinkoHanga

Thank YOU for following along, it was meaningless if nobody was willing to sit though it hahha

Sorry it took a little while

Well I can officially hand you your OG badge now you have spoken up. Thank you, I’m working on giving that badge some value haha