Japanese Wooden Boat Building Book
Douglas brooks is a boatbuilder, writer, and researcher specializing in traditional wooden boats. since 1996 he has been documenting traditional japanese boatbuilding. he has worked alongside seven craftsmen building eight types of boats. he is the sole apprentice for six of his seven... read more →. Yes, an expensive book... but, exceptionally well constructed, beaurltiful photography, top quality paper and a rarely seen durable dust jacket. like quality tools, worth the investment. although i’ve built a few wooden boats, i don’t have a deep interest in japanese boats, in particular.. Douglas brooks has built boats with seven masters in japan since 1996 and in this slide presentation he introduces the design secrets and techniques of japanese boatbuilding. he will be selling signed copies of his latest book, japanese wooden boatbuilding, the first comprehensive survey of the craft published..
Brooks, author of the comprehensive survey japanese wooden boatbuilding, joins us to share what he discovered on his journey to fishing villages around japan, where he interviewed elderly master. Mix - japanese boat builder seiichi nasu 1 youtube; building the totalboat - time for planking how to saw large timbers for building wooden boats at a sawmill - duration: 6:25.. Japanese boats. in japanese, the traditional boat is known as the wasen. wa means "traditional japanese thing" and sen is one suffix meaning boat or ship..
