Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use
by Toshio Odate
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- ISBN 10
- 0941936465
- ISBN 13
- 9780941936460
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Fresno CA: Linden Publishing, 1998. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 189 pages. Japanese Woodworking Tools brings the traditions and training of the shokunin to the Western world. Calling on his own apprenticeship as a tategu-shi (sliding-door maker), and on 40 years of woodworking experience, Toshio Odate here offers a complete guide to Japanese tools: thin saws that cut on the pull stroke, laminated chisels with hollowed backs, marking tools, waterstones, axes, hammers, and almost 50 different planes. Odate shows shows how each tool works, how it should be cared for and how it is meant to be used. He also shares stories and reminiscences that help bring home the traditions and spirit associated with each tool. Clean copy. Record # 382874
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 382874
- Title
- Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use
- Author
- Toshio Odate
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0941936465
- ISBN 13
- 9780941936460
- Publisher
- Linden Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Fresno CA
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Crafts, Woodcuts, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crafts;
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.