If Japanese-style woodworking, carpentry, and joinery—and the tools used to create these amazing feats of genius—fire up your “wow-that’s-extra-amazing” ganglia, put the Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum on your bucket list.
While the tools—the yari-gana plane alone is worth the trip to Japan where this place is—are awesome, the things in the museum are awesome-er. Massive timber frames. Sick joinery. And, yes, planes. And boxes of shavings you’ll be able to smell long after you come home.
The video is good, but if you want to see some joinery that’ll curl your hair, dive into the website and see what amazing things we can do with tools and a hunk of wood.
