Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks
-
@axtremus Japanes joinery is an amazing art - one for which I never had the patience.
The Japanese approach to cutting tools is different from Western tools. For example, most Japanese saws cut on the pull stroke, rather than the push stroke. This allows the blade to be thinner, wasting less wood, and allowing less force (therefore more accuracy) to be used.
Chisels have a hollow back. You can see that when he's chiseling the walnut at about 4:30. The hollow back allows the use of metals that can be much sharper. Just listen to that chisel cut across the grain...
-
@axtremus Japanes joinery is an amazing art - one for which I never had the patience.
The Japanese approach to cutting tools is different from Western tools. For example, most Japanese saws cut on the pull stroke, rather than the push stroke. This allows the blade to be thinner, wasting less wood, and allowing less force (therefore more accuracy) to be used.
Chisels have a hollow back. You can see that when he's chiseling the walnut at about 4:30. The hollow back allows the use of metals that can be much sharper. Just listen to that chisel cut across the grain...
@george-k said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:
@axtremus Japanes joinery is an amazing art - one for which I never had the patience.
The Japanese approach to cutting tools is different from Western tools. For example, most Japanese saws cut on the pull stroke, rather than the push stroke. This allows the blade to be thinner, wasting less wood, and allowing less force (therefore more accuracy) to be used.
Chisels have a hollow back. You can see that when he's chiseling the walnut at about 4:30. The hollow back allows the use of metals that can be much sharper. Just listen to that chisel cut across the grain...
I wonder, in general, what the purpose of these “wood only” joint techniques is, compared to modern connections using metal in some way. Is it only good looks? Tradition? Or do they actually have mechanical advantages?
-
@george-k said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:
@axtremus Japanes joinery is an amazing art - one for which I never had the patience.
The Japanese approach to cutting tools is different from Western tools. For example, most Japanese saws cut on the pull stroke, rather than the push stroke. This allows the blade to be thinner, wasting less wood, and allowing less force (therefore more accuracy) to be used.
Chisels have a hollow back. You can see that when he's chiseling the walnut at about 4:30. The hollow back allows the use of metals that can be much sharper. Just listen to that chisel cut across the grain...
I wonder, in general, what the purpose of these “wood only” joint techniques is, compared to modern connections using metal in some way. Is it only good looks? Tradition? Or do they actually have mechanical advantages?
@klaus said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:
I wonder, in general, what the purpose of these “wood only” joint techniques is, compared to modern connections using metal in some way. Is it only good looks? Tradition? Or do they actually have mechanical advantages?
Excellent question.
I used to take pride in the fact that I could join two pieces of wood with nothing other than joinery and glue. From a "philosophical" perspective, using screws, etc always seemed to be a "cop-out" to me.
I outgrew that.
I have many, many pieces of furniture that I've built with no metal or screws. In the long run, is it "better"? I don't know. Will it last longer? Perhaps.
The desk I'm sitting at right now has no metal joinery. The only pieces of metal in it are the drawer slides and the screws to hold the drawer handles. I'm very proud of it (you've seen it), but is it "better" because of my efforts?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
-
-
@klaus said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:
I wonder, in general, what the purpose of these “wood only” joint techniques is, compared to modern connections using metal in some way. Is it only good looks? Tradition? Or do they actually have mechanical advantages?
Excellent question.
I used to take pride in the fact that I could join two pieces of wood with nothing other than joinery and glue. From a "philosophical" perspective, using screws, etc always seemed to be a "cop-out" to me.
I outgrew that.
I have many, many pieces of furniture that I've built with no metal or screws. In the long run, is it "better"? I don't know. Will it last longer? Perhaps.
The desk I'm sitting at right now has no metal joinery. The only pieces of metal in it are the drawer slides and the screws to hold the drawer handles. I'm very proud of it (you've seen it), but is it "better" because of my efforts?
@george-k said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:
but is it "better" because of my efforts?
I can imagine that pure wood connections are less prone to making noise than screws etc. Maybe they are also more robust against shrinking/expanding of the wood due to humidity changes?
-
For the Viking fans ...
Link to video
-
Cool wood work videos
-
Dramatization of the effect of language barrier on tech support call center operations:
Link to video -
That is funny! I have the same problem sometimes! LOL
(Wasn't a video posted here about someone from Scotland trying to use Siri/Alexa?)
-
-
Indian adaptation of Pride and Prejudice:
Link to video -
Link to video
“16 Love” — tennis themed teenager coming-of-age story, mostly harmless. -
Love hotel with a water slide in the room.
Link to video
Don’t worry, it’s G-rated. -
-
I‘m not familiar with ancient Japan’s Heian period, but interesting to learn that from that period the women’s creative literary output is considered more valuable than men‘s. This does not happen often.
Link to video -
Why (Western) women shave their legs?
Link to video
-
The CCP’s 100th anniversary light show with 5,164 drones, supposedly some sort of world record.
Link to video -
Tank silencer … didn’t know that such a thing exists before today.
Link to video
