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Post by GhostFist on Jan 3, 2014 12:57:09 GMT -5
Another short video on historic Chinese timber frame construction. Part of the reason I wanted to start discussion on Chinese woodworking, is that there is a stigma now that China produces only garbage. I think with communist China, mass production and cheap labour in the name of profit, have created this stereotype. However, China was once exalted for their skills in craftsmanship, the world over. Did you know there is a Chinese God of carpentry? I don't know much on that but find it cool that your trade can be so engrossing it becomes your religion.
Anyway, enjoy the vid.
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Post by wrightwoodwork on Jan 3, 2014 15:38:40 GMT -5
Interesting videos will need to look at them more closely it is a bit of myth that everything out of China is cheap rubbish. Traditional Chinese joinery is every bit as good as any traditional European joinery and Japanese joinery I'm sure that 1 of the most respected occupations in China is an engineer. The yellow river is start of all Chinese civilization the story is something like the emperor had all his engineers and experts to build dams to stop the rivet flooding the land but they couldn't do it so one day an ordinary man said he could sort the problem and asked for a team instead of building a dam like all before he built canals and waited when the rainy season come the river level rose fed the canals and in do so stopped the land flooding and also gave water for the rice and other crops and he become the first something of China bit not sure what
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Post by jalvis on Jan 5, 2014 14:23:18 GMT -5
The following is a fantastic blog from a fellow woodworker who has a thorough interest in Japanese and Chinese Woodworking: www.thecarpentryway.blogspot.comIts amazing the amount of detail and knowledge in this ancient art.
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