the bow maker is such a W guy, he makes some of the most elegant, beautiful, and powerful bows in the world but still is thinking about how he can make it accessible to everyone
Being in a 450 year long family business was impressive, I thought. It's not just a job to him, he is like an artist or a designer wanting to have his work seen. Very cool guy.
ayyy, i live in ubon ratchathani! awesome to see our culture being acknowledged by foreigners. i've love you guys video for a long time, was not expecting you to make a video that include in depth detail of gongs. thanks for making it!
This is what the world is missing now a days. These people take pride in their work and want a quality and perfect product. These days people do things to get things done
I think the uniqueness of such craftsmanship expensive or inexpensive has a larger value than that of it’s monetary one, theses are the way in which these people from their respective cultures were able to bring their culture and value systems into real objects that exemplify how that specific culture sees the world and how they choose to navigate. It’s the truer appreciation of someone else perspective that’s at the heart of its value.
Something I truly appreciate about Eastern cultures, and something I think the west could benefit greatly from, is their appreciation for refinement. We are very focused on the new, reinvention. Whereas, at least in some regards, like in these crafts, Eastern cultures are focused on improvement and... Idk, making the best of what you got instead of trying to discard it all for what might be on the other side of the fence
@@Yhoshua_B sadly this whole 'quantity over quality' thing is deliberate so greedier companies can make more money-eg. with Apple making new phones every year rather than updating the hardware and software of their older ones. Do you know a place to get a phone repaired where they don't just say 'get a new one'? That's why. Same with fast fashion, game developers getting rushed, etc. They care about the dollars and not the final product.
@@pinkymii072 yeah. The game devs themselves may care about making sure the game is finished and stable on release but publishers like EA rush them. Though there are a few game dev companies who rush things as well.
2 grand for a bow. yea, go look at hunting bows, that not far off the price. High quality is a premium, and add in the fact that the laminated bamboo bows are a functional piece of art, made by a master artisan/engineer who as devoted his life to the art. Well worth the money i would say.
Woo-hoo you've hit upon the open secret of critical theory. You see, according to modern critical theory, whites have no culture, history, or ability. Let's ignore the woodworkers who make inlay, violins, and pianos. Ignore the French spun linen fabric which is smooth as silk and twice as durable. Or the paintings, cathedrals, the English and Swedish tool steels, etc. Apparently if your white, you don't have the exotic enough nature to make a video about.
I guarantee that in a double blind test, tea made in these pots would be indistinguishable from cheaper ones. Art appreciation is fine, but "enhancing the tea" is nonsense. It's the same in the wine industry. So called "experts" consistently fail to identify expensive wines from cheap ones in actual controlled tests. So much so that they often refuse to do them.
I would often go to a Temple in Shan State, Burma - where there was the largest gong I've even been close to. I would stand very near it and bang it once, and feel in my chest, my gonads, and throughout the body for about 20 seconds. It was about 5.5 ft. diameter, .... in Tachilek. The temple had scores of red roofs.
its sad to think how many tritonal trades and crafts will die forever in the next few generations. And they will be dead. people will reverse engineer things and learn to make them, but its the tradition, the skill, the soul of these crafts that will die. The methods in traditional crafts create amazing unique results that cannot be achieved with the "optimal" method of production.
I disagree with that statement. Clay can be ground down back into dust and reconstituted into clay same with glass and metals. Nothing is not renewable it's more people not using their heads.
@@zyxw2000 yeah I know but you can still take clay that was used and grind it back down into clay. Just because you fire it doesn't mean it's changed its properties as a clay. It's still clay. As for that particular type of clay, that reminds me of when the rock sugilite was discovered in Japan. They were like it's the only source of this rare mineral then two years later they discovered it in South Africa. They will find a new source for that clay, the condition for the formation of that clay is not specific to just that one area. But I will also say this clay is clay. Just because it's a "special" clay, doesn't make it anything else but a clay. It's like saying get is better then anthracite, they are both coal.
I would love to own a Japanese knife. I have to have a good knife if I am cooking. When I go to someones house and they don't have a good kitchen knife I question everything about them.
Absolutely! Thats why i carry a personal knife set in my truck at all times. When people know you can cook, they want you to. Might as well have your own tools to do it with. The crap knives that most people use are just insane and should be thrown in the trash. Just sayin. :)
Japan is NOT the only place to use stones to sharpen, I have a 200 year old sharpening wheel I use in my shop in Kentucky!! Lol get your facts straight haha 😂
A lot of non sense in this video. Just adjectives and gestures, From this video you could not make a sword if your life depended on it. I guess this video is intended to impress shoe salesman, lawyers and politicians
The sharpening and slicing of that kitchen knife is the most satisfying thing I’ve ever seen. Those cuts are beautiful and I love seeing the knife being sharpened ☺️
I saw a youtube on one of the japanese knife sets for sale for like $1400 reduced to $400, the maker of the video discovered they used the cheapest stainless available making the knife not as good as a $10 Kmart knife. If you buy anything make sure its the real thing using high quality stainless or steel, (the level of stainless is determined primarily by the chromium content). Buyer beware
You can sharpen a metal ruler to be razor sharp, what matters is how well/long it holds its edge.. it'll all need resharpening in the long run. Sometimes something right in the middle that holds its edge well, yet not so well that it's hard to sharpen to a good edge is best to some. It's all subjective
While some Japanese knife makers used high speed steel prior to WWII, British and American knife makers have been using 'High Speed Steel '( Invented in the late 1800's in Britain) since 1900 and were the first to do so. So, I hate to burst any bubbles but that is just the facts of history.
Explain why there are only 180 japanese sword smiths... The Japanese were banned from making them after WW2 and only allow a specific amount of swords to be produced by specially licensed smiths. That's why they are so expensive...
While I do hold the efforts and skills of traditional Japanese swordsmiths in very high regard, the process that they use is completely unnecessary now. The folding of the steel is not needed with modern ore processing. The technique used in traditional Japanese swordsmithing was only necessary because of the poor quality of the easily accessible iron ore in Japan, and smelting furnaces that couldn’t get hot enough to fully melt the iron. These aren’t issues anymore. The folding does nothing but increase the labor.
Depends on if you like having tamahagane or not. Yeah, you can crank out monosteel katanas by the hour (and the steel definitely has better QC) but even with a hamon they don’t look anywhere near as good as a traditional one.
@@matthewmarting3623 if looks could kill, but they can’t. As a weapon of war and not a piece of decoration, modern steel alloys are the far better choice. If you want something pretty to look at buy a painting.
@@GusCraft460 Mate, the blacksmith literally said he's making swords for blade collectors and temples for ceremonial stuff, so he's doing it in traditional way as much as possible. I don't think anyone is buying katanas for taking lives at this age. Some cultures just really have appreciation beyond swords' practical use. Sure he'll probably produce more, faster and probably better quality if he switch to modern steel, but that makes him no different from those sweatshops from India or China nor from those Western factories churning out plenty soulless and uninteresting blades.
Okay y’all need to hire someone better to do the Chinese translations… and the voice over. Every time this particular person does voice overs for Chinese stuff it makes my head hurt cause I don’t even know what they were even trying to say 😵💫
im never thought about it till now, if it takes months to make one of these swords, they must work like 1 hour a day lol.... iv watched enough blacksmithing to know that, and he is using a power hammer... so how could it take more then 2 weeks tops to make a beautiful blade..
They probably make a lot of blades at once so they can only spend a bit of time on each blade. Also if they are using the traditionally horrible quality iron sand to make blades it would take a lot longer since they would need to process the iron sand into a nice billet which I would imagine take a hell of a long time.
@@davidkatz8270 I believe that she said, "It can take a whole day to make". If she was busy doing something else then yes, it could have taken an entire day. Her wording of it makes it technically not a lie.
@@jonajo9757 It could be worse, but its made worse by the lack of modern tech, probably more than the lack of modern tech for other methods. Without a strong electromagnet it would be very difficult to purify the iron sand very much before smelting it.
