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How to make a bamboo pear picker - GIF
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Always a pleasure to see Japanese hand craft and simplicity of design with simple tools!
Thanks Jon!
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Not just the Japanese, but Oriental people in general for 1000's of years have made some of the finest simplistic tools to serve them in their everyday lives.
My wife has a pair of miniature Tiki candle holders we brought back from Pago Pago American Somoa when the Company I was with in Kuwait sent us there in early 2010 after the devastating Tsunami of 2009 to access the possibility of making some prefab structures we planned to construct and ship there as reassembled knock down panels in containers
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Great video, I love seeing things like this being made. Why didn’t I think of this?
If anyone is thinking of making one of these I suggest that you leave the spikes on the top end rather than trimming them off. You can gather smaller fruit like plums between the spikes and push or twist them off into the basket. Give it a try and if it doesn’t work for you you can always cut them off afterwards. Commercial plastic ones available here usually have the spikes.
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This year our pear tree only produced much smaller than normal sized pears. I blame this on my forgetting to feed the roots and we had a drier than average spring and summer. Today I decided to pull a few of the small pears so since I didn't have any bamboo to make one of those nice gadgets I just used a garden rake to pull the pears off the tree. HARD HAT required LOL
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Same creator, this time bamboo furniture. 6:45 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTejJnrzGPM
I have no desire to make bamboo furniture, but this video is very compelling to watch. The production values are so high here, it's hard to believe that this is just a person making videos on YouTube.
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Many years ago, in my woodcarving period, I ran across what looked like a useful tool for removing large chunks of wood quickly. It looked similar to this...
https://www.amazon.com/Hatchet-Bambo...bamboo+hatchet
Japanese, it was scary sharp and sharpened on only one side so it could cut flat up against a surface. I used it a lot and still find occasions where it's the tool of choice.
It was only a year or so ago that I discovered it was really a bamboo hatchet. (It hadn't been advertised as such when I bought it.) After watching the video I can appreciate the utility of its many nuance design features that make it appear so dissimilar to the western hatchet design.
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I could watch that all day.........
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I've collect a few cane knives over the years; all slightly different & better at one job than another. That looks like one very sharp knife & Japanese. In post war period if something was made in Japan, it was considered junk & any junk must have been made in japan: all the good stuff they kept for themselves=LOL.
I have only done limited work with bambusa species and can appreciate that persons skill & sharpness/appropriateness of the tools employed.
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Moby Duck
Great video, I love seeing things like this being made. Why didn’t I think of this?
If anyone is thinking of making one of these I suggest that you leave the spikes on the top end rather than trimming them off. You can gather smaller fruit like plums between the spikes and push or twist them off into the basket. Give it a try and if it doesn’t work for you you can always cut them off afterwards. Commercial plastic ones available here usually have the spikes.
The spikes are great for the twisting of fruit (like the video with the pears): we only learn that at Horticulture schools or from our parents where folk from all round the world have been doing it for centuries. They are really good for mangoes=dont want one of those to get bruised or scone your noggin.
a couple of decades back, I was trying to source bags( I looked for years=no internet then) for a similar comercial mango fruit picking tool (I thought i invented) when finally fiskars released one here. Oh well on to the next idea.
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Bamboo. Mother natures tubing. What a cool video, and a very skillful little lady.
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This really is pleasant to watch, and, again, I'm not exactly the world's biggest bamboo furniture aficionado.
It almost has a hypnotic effect, like watching up-close machining videos. Especially note how the aesthetic of the video itself matches the aesthetic of the furniture. Very beautiful, and really at or very close to the cutting edge of how-to video production these days.
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Jon
This really is pleasant to watch, and, again, I'm not exactly the world's biggest bamboo furniture aficionado.
It almost has a hypnotic effect, like watching up-close machining videos. Especially note how the aesthetic of the video itself matches the aesthetic of the furniture. Very beautiful, and really at or very close to the cutting edge of how-to video production these days.
Exactly, and well said Jon!! It's also a perfect example of kami-no-michi (Shintō) and her videography is no wonder why she has 845K subs (+1) in a year!
Ishitani is another guy with more modern tools but old world craftsmanship and videography are superb!
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Interesting. However, I would love to see this style of videography applied to building things from dead rocks instead of dead trees.
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Making a Japanese bamboo whisk. According to the video, this guy can make over 100 different types of whisk. 4:03 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENlUbRObevg
For an American, who has somehow managed to struggle through life with only a few types of whisk, this is like discovering Japanese Kit-Kat flavors:
https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net...at_flavors.jpg
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A 100 different types of whisks 50 Kit-Kat flavors is one reason you will never find me living in Japan. Every time I am forced to go to the super market there seems to be a new this or that and new flavors of Coke Pepsi Mtn Dew DR Pepper Orange crush etc etc. I mean come on how many way is there to make dugar infested carbonated soft drinks when none are any good for you but I still want my Pepsi now and a gain.
But whisks? take 2 forks hold them back to back or wrap a rubber band around them and your done Need more than that use the electric or hand crank mixer.
I stopped shaving years ago because buying a razor became too confusing.
The amount of different tooth brushes are just as bad but one has to brush their teeth. It seems every time I think about replacing mine there is a whole isle of the buggers to choose from I get so confused at the choices that I decide my old tooth brush will make a few more strokes in my mouth.
What ever happened to the simpler times when we didn't know we needed 100 different whisks or flavor soda or Kit-Kat to live from day to day.
On a lighter note the guy's expert nimbleness and finite delicate hand control and the amount of care he puts into making his Whisks is amassing. I'd require a 1000 stitches in my fingers before finishing the first one, which would have to be tossed in the trash from all the blood on it.
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Jon
One is plenty but some idiot thinks we need 20 flavours of a biscuit & then has to reintroduce the old one or two 'cause no keeps buyinh the new flavours. same with icecream, chocolate etc.guess they have to show they are doing something to improve sales & warrent their jobs existance.
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Don't get me started on Ice cream. when it comes to that delectable treat I have probably the narrowest flavor opinion of anyone on the planet.
As a kid we always looked forward to the rare Sunday afternoon when the folks would decide to make homemade ice cream . It was always made with hand crushed vanilla beans up until my grandmother passed away in 1965 She might once in a while add fine crushed pecans or black walnuts, but mostly they were left on the side in a dish we could add them if we wanted the same with scooping it over cake or any assorted toppings, after that one of my aunts or my mother would mix it then us kids turned the crank to freeze it. My aunts would always make up some horrible tasting flavor (to me that is) They would mix everything right into the mix. Ice cream on Sunday's became a non event for me I wouldn't even take my turn on the crank for those flavored disasters. Until one day my Mother decided we were going to have something new She mixed up a batch of lime sherbert from some recipe she found hand written in an old cook book. That has been my only choice of a frozen treat ever since. I might choke down a scoop of vanilla ice cream once in a while, Might that is. Mostly if I visit an ice cream parlor or shop if they don't have lime sherbert I'll buy the wife what ever flavor she wants but will exit without purchasing anything for myself.
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Frank S
Don't get me started on Ice cream. when it comes to that delectable treat I have probably the narrowest flavor opinion of anyone on the planet.
As a kid we always looked forward to the rare Sunday afternoon when the folks would decide to make homemade ice cream . It was always made with hand crushed vanilla beans up until my grandmother passed away in 1965 She might once in a while add fine crushed pecans or black walnuts, but mostly they were left on the side in a dish we could add them if we wanted the same with scooping it over cake or any assorted toppings, after that one of my aunts or my mother would mix it then us kids turned the crank to freeze it. My aunts would always make up some horrible tasting flavor (to me that is) They would mix everything right into the mix. Ice cream on Sunday's became a non event for me I wouldn't even take my turn on the crank for those flavored disasters. Until one day my Mother decided we were going to have something new She mixed up a batch of lime sherbert from some recipe she found hand written in an old cook book. That has been my only choice of a frozen treat ever since. I might choke down a scoop of vanilla ice cream once in a while, Might that is. Mostly if I visit an ice cream parlor or shop if they don't have lime sherbert I'll buy the wife what ever flavor she wants but will exit without purchasing anything for myself.
I can't beat a quality vanilla or rum & raisin icecream ( real ice cream not the chemical concoction).
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Adjustable stool carved from single block of wood. 3:11 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErEo0a4-r58
The wood carved folding stool thing is kinda cool, but it's not exactly going to the top of my project list; not really my thing. What I really like is this video production style, and how it matches others in this thread. I think it's a step up from a Western equivalent, like the Primitive Technology channel.
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What I really like is this video production style, and how it matches others in this thread.
Me too, almost like they are shot and edited professionally, yet have a simplistic feel because of the content.
I liked the rope vice and that somebody figured out (visualized) prior how to make all those cuts. Also noted he use the plane blade by hand for the center section.
Thanks Jon. Good eye!
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Nimble fingers & a great vice consisting of leg & rope.
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I like the loop of rope and foot way of holding it down.
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Respectable skill,and effort too...
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Interesting to me that he uses a western push-type saw rather than a Japanese pull-type saw.
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neilbourjaily
Interesting to me that he uses a western push-type saw rather than a Japanese pull-type saw.
The writing on the screen looks like Chinese, not Japanese.
He makes some plunge cuts with the saw. That would be difficult to do with a pull saw.
He also uses a push plane at the beginning of the video. I think Japanese planes are pull planes, as evidenced by this video...
http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/j...-19#post126899
