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Re: Holtey Hammer

Postby Woodbloke » 23 May 2021, 12:22

AJB Temple wrote:
It's also a well known fact that special steel like this has been used to beat out swords. In Japan everything basically comes from swords.


I know, I assisted in the manufacture of a sword in 2012 and swinging a huge Japanese forge hammer to beat a lump of white hot steel was bloody hard work!

I also saw a few Japanese chippies at work and none of them, but none, were using posh chisels and my pal Mike Huntley (who can sharpen a Japanese saw and sells the files to do so) told me the same thing about ‘Damascus’ steel. When he worked for Sotheby’s he was also their resident specialist on Japanese katana.

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Re: Holtey Hammer

Postby Phil Pascoe » 23 May 2021, 13:03

I remember reading a long while ago that there is little amateur woodworking in Japan, hence the tools tend to be either very high quality or else site tools, with nothing in between.
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Re: Holtey Hammer

Postby AJB Temple » 23 May 2021, 13:35

The culture is incomparable with ours really Phil. It is an amazing experience to spend time there immersed in the culture, and we have to set aside a lot of what we are used to over here.
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Re: Holtey Hammer

Postby Phil Pascoe » 23 May 2021, 13:38

Yes. My daughter was selected at school to go on a two week tour of Hiroshima etc. paid for by a wealthy Japanese businessman's foundation. She loved it and still keeps in touch with the girls she met there.
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Re: Holtey Hammer

Postby AJB Temple » 23 May 2021, 15:19

Ah. Did she get to toll the great bell?

Hiroshima is a peculiar place. Very calm in the large park, very peaceful but also heavily and oppressively sad I felt. It affects people differently.
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Re: Holtey Hammer

Postby Phil Pascoe » 23 May 2021, 15:26

She spoke quite a lot about it. The boy on the other hand went to Ypres and the Menin Gate and spoke about it not a single word.
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Re: Holtey Hammer

Postby Woodbloke » 23 May 2021, 17:08

AJB Temple wrote:Ah. Did she get to toll the great bell?

Hiroshima is a peculiar place. Very calm in the large park, very peaceful but also heavily and oppressively sad I felt. It affects people differently.


Agreed; it’s a place you need to visit once, but only once - Rob
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