Samurai Tech: How Ancient Methods Inform Tool Making Today
World Maker Faire New York 2018
September 22nd-23rd
Japanese swordsmithing is the stuff of legends. The properties of samurai swords carried over to Japanese woodworking tools. This talk will show how many fantastic aspects of these age-old techniques apply to the manufacture of today's woodworking tools, both Japanese and western.
Wilbur Pan
Wilbur Pan is a woodworker who lives in New Jersey, is the writer of the Giant Cypress blog, and has long had an interest in understanding the use of Japanese tools. He has written multiple articles on woodworking for Popular Woodworking Magazine, and has given many talks on Japanese tools and woodworking, including at Woodworking in America, KEZ 2014, and World Maker Faire New York.
